Everyone knows that the perfect capacitor to decouple the power rails around ICs is a 100 nF ceramic capacitor or equivalent, yet where does this ‘fact’ come from and is it even correct… ...

If you’ve worked with microcontrollers or digital logic chips you probably know that you’re supposed to add a small capacitor in between the voltage and ground pins for decoupling purposes.

For example, if an ADC consumes 2W from a 3.3V rail with a specified ripple of 5%, and a regulator cannot respond to a voltage change in less than 10 µs, then we need to provide 37 µF of decoupling.

Decoupling capacitors have long been an important aspect of maintaining a clean power source for integrated circuits, but with noise caused by rising clock frequencies, multiple power domains, and ...

In “ Know the sometimes-surprising interactions in modelling a capacitor-bypass network ” (abbreviated to “Know the…” when referred to here), Tamara Schmitz of Intersil and I provided some simulation ...

Technology Analysis of TSMC's Silicon Capacitor Deep Trench Capacitor - Research and Markets June 27, 2017 12:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time ...

However, there’s another physical realization of capacitors that offers performance benefits, by using silicon and its fabrication processes. Empower Semiconductor recently introduced the ...

Widely utilised in commercial and industrial five nines uptime applications, such as mainframe class cpus and ultimate performance multichip modules and communications systems, the MIL-PRF-123 tested ...

Measuring only 0.6mm x 0.35mm x 0.35 mm, the 0201 E case TACmicrochip Series SMD tantalum capacitors deliver high CV (0.47μF / 6.3V) and low leakage (0.01CV) in an extremely small package, as ...