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I'm designing a small circuit board which will have an STM32 microcontroller.

One document from STMicro says that the part must have two capacitors to filter the power supply, a 'ceramic' cap at 100nF, and a 'chemical' cap at 4.7uF.

Another document says they should both be ceramic caps, and the Nucleo64 evaluation board (sold by STMicro) uses ceramic caps for both.

Should I bother using a different cap for the larger value? If so, what qualifies as a 'chemical' capacitor, just electrolytics?