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For mixed signal designs, layout and placement is generally far more critical than the specific decouplers used, although manufacturers will often state a decoupling scheme if they believe it to be critical.

The rule of thumb (as already noted) is 100nF per power pin and a bulk decoupler for larger components (such as processors, microcontrollers, large FPGAs).

Xilinx goes into quite some detail on this subject.

Peter Smith
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