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[@guillep2k]

I love these advanced tips!!! (but all your tips are useful)

[@michalvanco]

Hi Robert. Keep up with this work. Very valuable information. May be you could do a tip about decoupling caps. Where to place them, how to orient them and how to route them. Especially for cases like when the power pin is on the opposite side of the package than the ground pin or when the datasheet suggest more coupling caps than there are power pins ;) And other things like these ...

[@gregfeneis609]

Nice trick, Robert!

[@mateuszkowalik7189]

Great series! Keep on creating this fascinating content!

[@bergweg]

Hi, can you use jumpers instead of resistors to re-route signals?

[@remy-]

I wonder, because of your recent EMI/SI videos Robert, would you do this also today? (Disconnected stub -> Antenna)

[@RobertFeranec]

Yes, I still would use it. There are often components in the lines e.g. DC coupling capacitors, so I would try to find a way how to use them for re-routing. However, we have also tried electrical switches (chips designed to multiplex high speed signals), that also works well.

[@kennethgaler2597]

Hi! How do you deal with the DRC issues with resistor pads sharing the same location?

[@RobertFeranec]

I setup exception for the two resistors so they can be placed on top of each other.

[@vasilinetrebko7941]

How can you make an optional component that share a pad with another optional component without the DRC errors?

[@nevermind6270]

You should create special component, consistong of three pads, for example

[@RobertFeranec]

visali, you can add DRC exception for the two components. Never Mind, that could make BOM more difficult.

[@nevermind6270]

Indeed. Though it is only valid if you are using real resistors. If on other hand you use solder joints you shoud anyway mark all them as EXCLUDED in BOM.