Mark Chauvin wrote:
> 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

Yes.

> so it gets
> rid of any ripple caused by the other parts of the
> circuit?

No.  So that it rides out the current spikes caused by the chip itself.  It
reduces the power supply impedence at high frequencies seen by the chip.


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