2.6.3 Standoff Capacitors

For applications that have more stringent noise requirements, different capacitors can be used to mitigate any capacitor ringing that may occur at the output of the switching node. This ringing may be attributed to a piezo-electric resonant behavior with the PCB board. One solution is to use ceramic capacitors with metal terminals that physically lift the capacitor off the board.

Figure 1. Standoff Capacitors