Doff Your Cap

I write only because some random Explorer tab was open to Blogspot and I was really tired of combing through Digikey to find the absolute cheapest caps for a given value. I'm working on finding a cheap, minimal decoupling network for our chip to go on our customer application board (imagine it as an eval board wandering around the lab in nothing but its socks). This thing has nothing on it; we're using the background capacitance of the board for power decoupling. It has to be small, cheap and easy... and it has to work right the first time.

I'm excited. I get to fill my engineering notebook with TABLES upon TABLES of hand calculations and notes about package geometries. I will, hell or high water, find a way to estimate the ESR of these Panasonic-ECG caps, despite the fact that they don't provide curves or values in their datasheet.