Decoupling or Bypass Capacitors

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0by1

Joined May 10, 2011
11
Hello,

I have following doubts about Decoupling or Bypass Capacitors, please clarify

(1) Different b/w Decoupling or Bypass Capacitor in one line.

(2) For a MPU or any IC having 'N' Vcc (say 3V) pins how many caps i have to use ??


Thanks in advance.
 

Thread Starter

0by1

Joined May 10, 2011
11
Ya Bertus,

I have studied that, but for (2) question i didn't get the answer.
In some circuits they use 1 cap for 2 Vcc pins but in some circuit they use 1cap per 1 Vcc pin, why is that?

Ans for(1) :According to me both are capacitors with different name depending on
-their frequency characteristics (diff. value)
-place where it is used.
am I right???
 

Wendy

Joined Mar 24, 2008
23,415
A lot of it depends on how noisy the circuits are, and how noise critcial they are. Many cases it works out it is cheaper to have a few extra 1¢ parts than to have it occasionally become intermittent due to noise issues.
 

nbw

Joined May 8, 2011
36
My personal preference is to slap a 0.1uF cap across the supply and ground for each IC I use, for the very small cost and space of the caps, it's well worth it in eliminating little glitches that digital chips in particular don't like.
 
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