Thanks.  That clears things up.
-Mark

--- Paul Hutchinson <paullhutchinson@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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 ;)
> 
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