[sdiy] decoupling caps again

[Ian Fritz]

I agree with the first comment below the article.  I'm sure that most 
diy-ers have at least one decoupling cap where power enters the 
board.  That already makes our typical boards different from the author's 
experiment, where he was comparing to the case where there was no 
decoupling at all.

Just because the author saw some oscillations in one particular 
circuit/layout doesn't mean you have to put decoupling caps on every 
chip.  The earlier studies, in fact, showed that a few caps here and there 
on an analog board are plenty.  This has always worked well for me.  In 
fact, I've never found a problem of any kind that could be fixed by adding 
more bypass caps.

Ian


At 01:25 PM 9/2/2013, Ingo Debus wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>in the past, we often discussed decoupling caps. Several people said, in 
>audio circuit these are not that important, since there are only fairly 
>low frequencies involved. Have a look at this:
>
><http://e2e.ti.com/blogs_/b/precisiondesignshub/archive/2013/08/13/the-decoupling-capacitor-is-it-really-necessary.aspx?HQS=hpa_prechubdecoup_130901&DCMP=mytinwsltr_08_31_2013&sp_rid_pod3=LTIyNjA0OTg5MDgS1&sp_mid_pod3=4968551>
>
>Ingo
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