11. MCU Decoupling Capacitor Selection
Aarav is designing a 3.3V microcontroller board and needs a local decoupling capacitor near the MCU power pin to reduce supply noise and handle fast current spikes.
He decides to select the standard and most effective local decoupling capacitor 0.1 µF (100 nF) ceramic capacitor in 0603 SMD package.
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