Hi Vipul, There is much information missing regarding your set-up/tests, like: - is your board hosted in a PC or any other std (VXI, PXI, VME etc) platform? - if standalone, are you using a commercial power supply or a custom one? In a standalone set-up, check the connections/wires from the power supply to your board, their impedance could be your only problem. - in both cases, is the PSU rated for your needs? - do you have an additional power supply module (step-up, step-down, etc) on your board;does it have an inrush current limiter? - does the power supply collapse immediately when you connect your board or after you enable some of its functional blocks? When you say "collapse" does it drop/swing its output going "slowly" down to ~0 mV or does it go immediately? - have you tried more than one boards to see if you get the same results? - have you tried an alternative PSU to see if you get the same results? -....... -....... - is there any special reason why you think that the problem comes from the decoupling capacitors? In general, I have used more capacitance than you are using without any problem. Furthermore, I usually use "bulk" capacitors say 16uF or so, nearby "large switch current loads" (i.e. CPUs/MCUs, FPGAs, Memory Banks etc). Maybe you could try this as a 1st workaround. Cheers, John Vipul Badoni wrote: > Hello SI-Folks, > > > I was wondering if some of you could share with me your experiences with > power supply collapse due to excessive decoupling of only a few values > of capacitor on boards drawing a lot of switching current. The situation > I am dealing with has ~400 in number of 0.1uF caps and ~200 in number of > 1uf caps. The power supply shows a lot of noise ~400mV. > > > > Regards, > > Vipul Badoni. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe from si-list: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field > > or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list > > For help: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field > > > List technical documents are available at: > http://www.si-list.net > > List archives are viewable at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list > or at our remote archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages > Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: > http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu