Thanks! Still looks a bit generic than I hope for. What I have in mind is sort of best practice cookbooks for embedded developers but focused on the analog part.

It should provide formulas if needed but avoid any mathematical explanation if possible. It should also be based on scenarios instead of components, in a "You should use an X component parallel/serialized between point a and b for the purpose of Y".

For example: "You probably want to protect the Vcc pin by connecting a capacitor between A and B from spikes, because XYZ will bring these spikes".

It should also supply a real life picture because I found it difficult to translate circuits on books to real life breadboards. On textbooks they usually use ideal components such as power sources with one terminal but it's kinda hard to wrap them around my head sometimes.

I understand it's probably too much to ask and one should build such knowledge slowly. But sometimes I dream a bit :D

Very large and expensive textbooks have been written on the subject of power protection and grounding.

A good (at the no-mathematics level), cheap but somewhat older book on power protection is Protection of Electronic Circuits from Overvoltages, Ronald B Standler, published by Dove. Focused more on whole-device protection rather than individual-IC protection though.

NB. Capacitors on supply pins of ICs are usually more for 1. mitigating noise emission from the IC onto the power rails, affecting other circuit components; 2. stabilising the power supply to the IC (and so its operational parameters) while it deals with signal transients.

If you are worried about an individual IC getting voltage spikes on its power supply pin(s), then you're probably doing it wrong. If not, use TVSes (transient voltage suppressors).

You can learn a lot of that kind of thing from reading app notes and data sheets carefully when you're starting out. For analog, the old applications handbooks from National, Burr-Brown, Analog, Linear, etc. are all available scanned to pdf if you look for them.

Got it. Now that you said, I did remember reading a few app notes. There was one written by TI regarding ALL their chip X (IIRC it's a RAM chip) that did speak about how to protect the Vcc by connecting a capacitor as a best practice.

Thanks! Yeah I probably should read more of those app notes. I'm mostly interested in digital though.