Caps to reduce noise

download the maker's data-sheet and use whatever they suggest. (using too much is unlikely to cause problems)

Otherwise you have to figure out how big the current spikes are going to be and how much capacitance is needed to cater for them.

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A reservoir cap is placed at the rail lead to help maintain variations due to board rail feeds and inrush currents. This cap is normally a larger value how ever, these caps don't anything for R.F. issues because they tend to become inductive, thus, a smaller non inductive type may also be coupled with the reservoir type to bye pass the RF to ground. .01 is common for this in ceramic types.

P.S. Tantalums are smaller but tend to destroy them self in flames and smoke.

Maybe if you make previsions to not allow the smoke escape, you can use those!

Not noise, but power supply 'bounce' as current is drawn.

It's largely empirical.

Graham

.01 WHAT ?

Jeez, you need to grow up.

Graham

I think you have a kink in your neck. You're look the wrong way.

Use a physically small, preferably surface-mount, ceramic capacitor of the most capacitance you can afford. Most ICs are happy with 0.1 or

If you're doing a multilayer board with a solid ground plane and hefty power planes or pours, you don't really need a cap per ic... just scatter a few around. I know one guy who uses no bypass caps at all, and his stuff works too.

There are so many opinins about bypassing because most everything that different people do, works. I've seen FPGAs with literally hundreds of bypass caps per chip; we use four.

John

See these links:

Also Google "bypass capacitor calculation".

Regards, Steve

Many thanks This is another article that I found. Hope to help others