Reduction method of voltage fluctuation of DC power supply in digital IC

This paper describes how voltage fluctuation in the DC power supply of a digital IC can be reduced, by means of molding the package-pin in a ferrite-resin composite. The voltage fluctuation of the DC power supply, when the input terminal was driven by a 40 MHz, 5 V-p.p pulse wave, was measured using an oscilloscope. Simultaneously, the voltage spectrum of the fluctuation was measured using a spectrum analyzer. As a result, the voltage fluctuation was decreased by about 50 % when the IC package-pins were molded in a ferrite-resin composite, in which the mu(lac) of the ferrite powder equalled 100, and the powder content was 80 weight-%. In the same IC, there was the reduction effect of the voltage spectrum of the fluctuation was recognized in the frequency range 40 MHz to 1 GHz.