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…

Timely, since I recently misplaced my big bag of 100nF through hole MLCCs, somehow.

  • remotelove@lemmy.caEnglish
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    il y a 2 ans

    Decoupling caps should match your application or the datasheet of the component you are decoupling. “Rules of thumb” in electronics generally equate to myths or just really old truths.