On Tuesday 13 April 2004 21:50, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> 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.

Thanks! If only I'd known that it was a "decoupling capacitor" for
"digital logic circuits" *grin* That article looks to explain it, I
understand the basics from the first paragraph already and now I
shall absorb the rest :-)

Thanks again,
Matt

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