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, > ======================= > Mikhail Matusov > Senior Hardware Design Engineer > Square Peg Communications > Tel.: +1 (613) 271-0044 ext.231 > Fax: +1 (613) 271-3007 > http://www.squarepeg.ca > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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