Most ICs need to be decoupled from their power supply, usually with a 0.1uF capacitor between each power pin and ground. Decoupling is usually used to remove noise and to smooth power fluctuations.

There has been work on laying out linear capacitors on IC substrates using fractals, but we aren’t sure how that would translate into a PCB layout. We’ve seen lots of other PC trace components ...

Third, ceramic capacitors cause output ripple of less than 5 mV p-p versus more than 20 mV p-p (Figure 2). For this circuit, the load-transient overshoot is also lower: less than 50 mV p-p versus more ...

A special type of component is the integrated circuit (IC) where large numbers of transistors, resistors, diodes, and other electronic components are packaged onto a tiny silicon chip (i.e., a ...