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- From: gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews)
- Subject: Re: 486DX2 Crystals
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.064222.9259@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <1992Dec12.003507.1@research.ptt.nl> <1992Dec16.011918.25341@eng.ufl.edu> <1992Dec20.164539.1@research.ptt.nl>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 06:42:22 GMT
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- walvdrk_r@research.ptt.nl (Kees van der Wal) writes:
- >iqbal@omaha.eel.ufl.edu (M.Iqbal) writes:
- >>walvdrk_r@research.ptt.nl (Kees van der Wal) writes:
- >>|>
- >>|> [about clock frequency to be fed to 486DX2]
- >>|>
- >>|>Though I still wonder where my DX2 get's its 66MHz
- >>|>clock from if the crystal runs at 33MHz only. Does it contain some
- >>|>internal clock doubler circuitry?
- >>
- >>Square wave have infinte number of frequencies: a fact explained in
- >>any introductory communication book. If you do not believe me than
- >>try finding Fourier Transform of a pulse train or see a specturm
- >>of a pulse train on a spectrum analyzer.
- >
- >I believe the book. The book say that symmetric waveforms have no even
- >harmonics, so the probably symmetric 25 or 33MHz clock has to be converted into
- >something asymmetric to be useful.
- >
-
- What does your book say about a Sawtooth (Ramp) wave?
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- According to my reference, a Sawtooth wave has both odd and even harmonics,
- whose amplitude is inversely proportional to the harmonic number itself.
- I.e. the 2nd harmonic is 1/2 as loud, 3rd harmonic is 1/3 as loud, 4th is
- 1/4 as loud, etc.
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- >
- >It would require some kind of filtering to select the second harmonic. As
- >having some LC-filtering on-chip doesn't seem very likely, I'm still wondering
- >how the 486-designers made it work.
- >
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- I've seen probably a dozen frequency doubling techniques in various magazines
- and those huge books in the library that reprint circuits from everybody's
- data sheets. Most of them are analog, but there are enough purely digital
- ones that it shouldn't be too hard for Intel's engineers to find one for
- their cpu.
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