[bartlettD]

>“But Graham,” I hear you protest, “I see these practices recommended in vendor’s datasheets all the time! Surely they can’t be wrong? They’re professionals!”

>The 100nF value for decoupling became so entrenched because it works well enough* most of the time, so you don’t need to even think about it. By eliminating trivialities you can focus your brain-juices, spoons, or whatever else you want to call them on more challenging tasks.

So the argument in this article is that we should ignore this triviality and spend more time precisely tuning decoupling capacitor selection on top of designing the rest of the system?

Software people would call this premature optimisation, no?