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Power Electronics — question 4 of 10

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The bulk cap is present and correctly sized for the average current; the droop only appears on fast edges.

You probe VCC right at a chip's supply pin during a fast digital load transient and see a several-millivolt droop that recovers within a few microseconds, even though there's a 100uF bulk capacitor a few centimeters away. What's most likely missing from the decoupling scheme, and how would you confirm it?

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