EEVblog #1081 – Are Bypass Capacitors REALLY needed?
Can a product work without ANY bypass capacitors?
Dave finds out by “Muntzing” the Gigatron TTL computer.
Lots of interesting talk on bypassing, grounding, probing, signal integrity, ground loops and noise and crosstalk.
Forum HERE
Links:
http://www.electronicdesign.com/boards/whats-all-muntzing-stuff-anyhow
http://web.mst.edu/~jfan/slides/Archambeault1.pdf
https://ewh.ieee.org/r3/enc/emcs/archive/2012-10-10b_DecouplingMyths.pdf
http://www.ti.com/lit/ml/slyp173/slyp173.pdf
https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/user_guides/ug483_7Series_PCB.pdf
https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/application_notes/xapp623.pdf