Decoupling1 Decoupling Many people today are decoupling  digital logic ICs by placing a single 0.1 or 0.01 uF capacitor next to the IC. This is the same method that has been used on digital logic ICs for the last forty plus years, so it still must be the correct approach -- right!  After all how much has IC technology changed in the last forty years?  I think that it is interesting that this method has worked for as many years as it has.  No one should be surprised that, possibly, we are now to the point that a new approach to decoupling is required.[pic] Decoupling is not the process of placing a capacitor adjacent to the IC tosupply the transient switching current, rather it i……