John Fields wrote...
Hey, a rate multiplier with a fixed setting is a divider.
Of sorts.
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Yeah, so's a gear with broken teeth.
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It's a matter of emphasis and useability and of courtesy. :>)
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Not that he's suddenly my hero or anything, It just seemed to me that
you were taking an unwarranted swipe at him when even a warranted swipe
is so out of character for you.
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Anyway, consider these two possibilities: 1) the source is
inherently very stable and square (e.g. from a divider), or
2) the resulting x 0.4 frequency is not used with a PLL in
communications and isn't sensitive to small levels of inter-
pulse jitter. I have encountered many such cases in my own
engineering experience.
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Yes, I'm sure we all have...
However, I believe most of us consider "symmetrical" to mean square, and
I sure wouldn't consider a group of non-square pulses repeating
periodically to be symmetrical. For that matter, I wouldn't even
consider a group of repeating square pulses with different periods
between them to be symmetrical.
