[SI-LIST] Re: Current sense resistors and power integrity

If the resistor feeds a power plane (even a relatively small one) that is
decoupled with the correct capacitors this can work well. Without the power
plane the resistor (say it's 1206 SMD) will add 2 nH in series with the
decoupling capacitor(s). All of this can be easily modeled in SPICE,
including the power plane.
    Dave Cuthbert

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Mikhail Matusov <matusov@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Is that a really bad idea to insert a small current sensing resistor, e.g.
> 3
> mOhm, followed by a bulk capacitor in each power rail of a let's say a DSP
> or a FPGA chip to be able to measure its power consumption?
>
>
> Thanks,
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