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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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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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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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Decoupling of A/D converter

I am working on a project that requires the usage of a AD7656 16-bit high speed converter. This chip comes in a 64-LQFP package, which means the package is rather small. Because the prototype boards ...