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Emre Mutlu
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Is it bad practice to place a bypass capacitor under its respective component

I am designing a double layer board and in my layout I am running into problems. I want to keep the board as small as possible. But I should also be able to assemble it per hand. So all my resistors and ceramic caps are 0805 of size. My problem is that I am running out of space with these dimensions for possible routing on the top layer. Since the bypass cap. needs to have a low impedance path to the component I was thinking of placing these bypass caps directly under an ic to save space. But would that potentially introduce a parasitic element and disrupt the working of the chip? I have no idea. Any share of expertise on the matter would be appriciated.

Emre Mutlu
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