Matt Marsh wrote :
> I've seen a number of circuits where a capacitor is placed between
> the VSS and VDD pins of the PIC. Is this something that should
> always be done? What is the purpose of this capacitor?
>
> Thanks,
> Matt

I entred "decoupling capacitor digital logic circuits" in Google, and
found this : http://www.seattlerobotics.org/encoder/jun97/basics.html.

Enjoy !!

Jan-Erik.

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