See: http://www.piclist.com/techref/power/decouple.htm Paul > -----Original Message----- > From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu On Behalf Of Mark Chauvin > Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 12:15 PM > > I'm going to don my dummy hat and ask a stupid > question - how do you decouple a chip? Do you mean > put a very small cap across chip pwr & gnd so it gets > rid of any ripple caused by the other parts of the > circuit? (I'm guessing, but even dummies can guess > right some times ;) -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist