A capacitor, usually ceramic, used to provide instantaneous energy to a local circuit.
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Sensor decoupling and noise reduction
I have an Arduino UNO board, and I wanted to design a simple 'sensor shield' --since all simple sensors has 3 pins (namely, SIG-5V-GND) and it is convenient to connect bunch of them directly-- and ...
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how to know the count of decoupling caps that are to be added up? [closed]
I have a question regarding how to compensate the decoupling capacitors from the board mean how can we count the number of capacitors to be added up?
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What formulas do I need to use to design a voltage regulator circuit for a zigbee radio?
I've written the code for my zigbee radios, but now I face the obstacle of getting them onto a carrier board to allow access to VCC, GND, TX, RX via a 4 wire connector.
The supply voltage is 3.712 ...
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Decoupling capacitor across Raspberry Pi GPIO input (+ Arduino + robotics)
I've been messing around with a robot kit from Parallax (the BOE Shield Kit), which has a 5xAA (7.2V?) power source. The BOE Shield includes its own 5V regulator, which is used to control servos that ...
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Best place to place a decoupling capacitor
See this image which gives four options to place decoupling capacitors:
(from http://www.learnemc.com/tutorials/Decoupling/decoupling01.html)
I would say option (d) isn't good - I would recommend ...
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What's the use of a decoupling capacitor near a reservoir capacitor?
I've seen some circuits where a decoupling capacitor is used as well as a reservoir capacitor, like this (C4 and C5):
I've read about decoupling capacitors and for me it looks as if they are meant ...
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Which connection(s) to a decoupling capacitor should be shortest?
Circuit Cellar-Issue 210- has this question "Which connection(s) to a decoupling capacitor should be shortest?why?" in its "Test your EQ section". I couldn't understand what they meant 'Which ...
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how many caps required for 3.3V rail for 500ma?
How much capacitance do I need on 3.3V rail with loading of ~500mA?
I have 22uF caps that I can use.
In general, what is a good rule of thumb on how much capacitance required based on a voltage rail ...
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How do I decople a microcontroller with odd number of ground pins?
I'm building a DIP adapter board for MSP430FR5739 and I want to include the decoupling capacitors on the adapter board itself.
From what I can see, I'll need a capacitor on the analogue and digital ...
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Is my design good enough in terms of noise and EMI as its 80MHz MCU board [closed]
Recently I'm trying to design a PCB board for an MCU. The problem is I haven't considered any noise aspects before. As I'm in a contest for new electronics product run by our university I have to ...
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What's the use of the bypass capacitor on the LM380 amplifier?
I've read the LM380 amplifier data sheet and application notes, and they show a power supply ripple rejection number that's based on the size of the bypass capacitor. There are also a few designs that ...
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Can I replace all electrolytic capacitors with ceramic ones?
I am designing the power supply circuit for a system that needs several supplies, my questions are:
Is it possible to replace all electrolytic caps (Mostly 100uF) by ceramic ones? What are the ...
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Inductive choke with bypass capacitors?
I've been looking at a few power input circuits and quite a few of them suggest an inductive choke with a large bypass capacitor followed by smaller bypass capacitors.
In theory this is what I ...
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USB powered device with multiple Decoupling Capacitors
I have a USB powered device with multiple IC's. From what I've read it's standard practice to use a combination of multiple range capacitors for decoupling each individual IC, with the smallest being ...
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Placement of decoupling capacitors
The recommended power schematics for Atmel's AT32UC3C (figure 6-1) shows the use of 2 decoupling capacitors from the power supply to the digital circuitry, CIN1 and CIN2. These are meant to decouple ...
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How much capacitance do I need in the input of LM78L05
I want to use LM78L05 as a fixed output voltage regulator as shown in the datasheet, as I cited below. My regulator is 2 meters away from the power supply filter. My input voltage is 24V, however this ...
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Capacitor selection with multiple regulators
I'm working on a circuit that needs three voltage regulators: +24VDC, +12VDC, and +5VDC. The power input is +28VDC from a bench power supply. The +24VDC regulator is a 78M24. It is supplied from ...
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Are small valued capacitors effective in the device power input?
I am really confused with all of the ground bounce, decoupling, bypassing, filtering, resonance and ESR&ESL stuff.
What I currently understand is:
Ground bounce occurs when the (capacitive ...
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How important is it to put decoupling caps on the same side of the PCB?
How important is it to have decoupling capacitors on the same side of the PCB as the IC? I am desperately short of space in a design, and it would really help to put the caps on the bottom side.
I ...
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Adequate decoupling / noise reduction for two accelerometers?
This is my first PCB, so please forgive some of my ignorance! I'd like to mount two accelerometers (ADXL193: +/- 250g), orthogonally, on the same PCB, and have a question about noise.
The current ...
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Combining capacitors for multiple chips
I'm building a circuit that uses multiple chips. All of them require a capacitor to be connected in parallel to the VCC line (as seen in the datasheets). Since capacitors are used to reduce voltage ...
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TLC5940 and ADXL335 circuit 'glitches' on perfboard. Need decoupling caps?
I created a circuit containing one TLC5940 and one ADXL335 breakout board. The ADXL board comes configured with 0.1 uF capacitors to set the bandwidth of each axis to 50Hz.
It is wired to an Arduino ...
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Why do we need 100nF cap in the output of an SMPS?
I was looking at Micrel AN-53 and I have noticed that in a circuit in the first page (circuit is below), at the output of an 400KHz, 27V, 7A, 180W boost converter, there are two 680 uF, two 10 uF and ...
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Localized Star Network From Bulk Cap?
I was reading the Power Integrity article on Altera's website and came across the recommendation for the Bulk Capacitor (47uF to 100uF). I'm supposed to have one 47uF-100uF capacitor for every two ...
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Decoupling capacitors on the bottom layer?
I'm using 0.01 uF decoupling capacitors in a 0805 package, on each Vcc/GND pair of my CPLDs. So, around eight capacitors in total). I find it a bit easier to route the board if the decoupling ...
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Why connect capacitors to motor body?
So I've found a motor circuit which looks like this:
Since many users here believe that my hand-drawn circuit schematics are in fact pictures of flying spaghetti monster, I'll also provide a ...
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Bypass capacitors for BGA packages
We have designed quite a few FPGA-based boards, and so far, we have used a lot of bypass capacitors. Our rule of thumb was, "as many as we can".
In our next design, we would like to reduce the part ...
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HUGE capacitor recommended in datasheet for Audio Amp
I'm using the TPA3111 audio amplifier in a circuit of mine and I'm working on adding the appropriate capacitors. However, on page 18/19 of the datasheet TI recommends to use a 220mF capacitor on the ...
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Circuit Design to Power the ADH8066 GSM Module
I am struggling to find the proper circuit design layout to properly power the ADH8066 GSM module and communicate with my Arduino.
The ADH8066 requires a 4V power supply and can have a brief spike of ...
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How do I know where I need decoupling capacitors?
I'm building a motor driver shield for the Arduino. Here's the schematics (please forgive the messy layout):
And here's the PCB layout:
I'm testing it out by breadboarding it while running a ...
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Characterization of bypass capacitors
I was reading through a few post including Decoupling caps as well as this app note Xilinx Power Distribution Network.
I have a question regarding capacitor values within a power distribution system. ...
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Decoupling caps, PCB layout
I guess I've been somewhat ignorant when it comes to the finer details of pcb layout. Lately I've read a couple of books that try their best to lead me on the straight and narrow. Here is a couple of ...
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Why aren't decoupling caps built into the IC or IC package?
The title is probably good enough, but I've always wondered why decoupling caps aren't built into the chip or at least the IC packaging?
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Where to place decoupling capacitor
I am using this(also below in question) circuit to drive a motor, and I heard I should put a decoupling cap in there to smooth out voltage spikes. I have been told to put it close to the ic, and I ...
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Bypass capacitors needed in low-frequency digital logic systems?
I know it's good practice to use bypass capacitors near the power pins of your ICs, but I'm now moving on from the breadboarding stage to the PCB-design stage, and I'd like to know if there are any ...
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How to connect decoupling capacitor when VCC/GND pins aren't close
I'm making a board which will host an ATmega 162 microcontroller in PDIP package. Unfortunately, VCC and GND pins are diagonally arranged. From what I've read, the capacitors should be as close to the ...
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Would pictured circuit be good enough to power ATmega162?
I've read the datasheet and the application notes elated to AVR Hardware Design Considerations and EMI. From them and various Internet sources I came up with pictured design for power supply circuit ...
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Sizing an RC snubber
My fridge is sending bad clacks to my loudspeakers when it turns on/off, I fear for the tweeters. I'd add a snubber/suppressor to the compressor but my notions about RC filters from school are 15 ...
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Cap's on H-Bridge… Seem a bit redundant?
The Below is a H-Bridge Schematic from this site: http://www.societyofrobots.com/schematics_h-bridgedes.shtml. Wouldn't the 10-100nF cap be rendered useless by the 10000 uf cap? Wouldn't the caps just ...
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Are decoupling capacitors needed with battery power?
Currently I run all my gadgets from batteries and don't use decoupling capacitors. Are they generally needed/useful when drawing energy from a battery?
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Decoupling capacitors
Many IC's I've seen suggest decoupling capacitors across Vdd to Vss - this is sensible.
However some IC's for example the dsPIC33FJ128GP802 has THREE Vss pins and only two Vdd pins (AVdd and Vdd.) So ...
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What is a decoupling capacitor and how do I know if I need one?
What is a decoupling capacitor (or smoothing capacitor as referred to in the link below)?
How do I know if I need one and if so, what size and where it needs to go?
This question mentions many ...
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Decoupling capacitors: what size and how many?
Lots of chips nowadays require smoothing capacitors between VCC and GND for proper function. Given that my projects run at all sorts of different voltage and current levels, I was wondering if anyone ...
