If you’ve been building circuits for any length of time, you probably know you need decoupling capacitors to keep your circuits stable. But even though it’s a favorite technique of ours, just ...

Make sure the supply current goes to capacitor first, and only then to the IC Each integrated circuit should have at least a decoupling capacitor placed in close proximity to the supply pins. The ...

CMOS technology has evolved as the top choice for chip manufacturers. There are multiple reasons for its emergence to its current status, continuous reduction in feature size being one of them. SoC ...

A thin-film termination technology developed by AVX (www.avx.com) makes it possible to dramatically reduce the internal inductance of decoupling capacitors. Decoupling capacitors produced with this ...

Everyone knows that the perfect capacitor to decouple the power rails around ICs is a 100 nF ceramic capacitor or equivalent, yet where does this ‘fact’ come from and is it even correct? These are the ...