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- From: thompson@inmos.co.uk (Peter Thompson)
- Subject: Re: faster internal clocks
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.094322.9425@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 09:43:22 GMT
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- Roderick McConnell (mcconnel@irisa.fr) wrote:
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- : 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
-
- Absolutely correct.
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