So I just finished soldering the 16-pin sockets to a piece of perfboard for a bunch of 74HC595's when I realized that I didn't include any decoupling caps in the design. How likely am I to have problems without them? And, more importantly, how the do you normally decouple an IC with a 16 pin dip pac…

Decoupling shift registers

system January 29, 2013, 11:10pm 5

How likely am I to have problems without them?

Quite unlikely.