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- From: steved@lion.inmos.co.uk (Stephen Doyle)
- Subject: Re: faster internal clocks
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.093347.21798@titan.inmos.co.uk>
- Sender: news@titan.inmos.co.uk
- Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK
- References: <1993Jan26.091719.17577@irisa.fr>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:33:47 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.091719.17577@irisa.fr> mcconnel@irisa.fr (Roderick McConnell) writes:
- >
- > How are faster internal clocks for CPU's typically generated? I am
- >wondering about processors such as the transputer, where the internal
- >clock is a significant multiple of the external clock. The external
- >clock speed can not be varied (for the transputer at least), so my
- >first guess is that there is a PLL inside - but wouldn't that require
- >analog circuitry?
- >--
- > - Roderick
-
- You're quite right about the transputer using PLL's to increase clock speed,
- these are implemented in CMOS and internally increase frequency to support
- up to 30MHz clock cycle and 5x oversampling of the 20Mbit/sec links -
- the clock input supplied to the transputer must be 5MHz.
-
- Steve
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