you can buy sockets for your chips that have decoupling caps built in.


>Capacitors are VERY area-expensive to integrate.
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>> From: Lynx {Glenn Jones} <jones_gl@EFN.ORG>
>> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>> Subject: [OT] A final question about decoupling caps.
>> Date: Sunday, January 17, 1999 09:12
>>
>> Today as i was installing decoupling caps on a circuit board i thought to
>> myself: "Why dont the IC manufactures just incorperate a decoupling cap
>> right in the ic itself?" Any one have any ideas?
>>
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