Frequency Divide by 2.5?

[Fred Bloggs]

some idiot responded:

I am not sure if this was directed at me, since the reply does not seem
to fit my question. Just in case, though: I am a hardware designer, but
not a digital designer.

In your dreams- your post is barren of an engineering specifics- you are
not detail oriented- you are a sloppy programmer sloth.

You seem to have made some assumptions that are
not warranted. I do not care about duty cycle, and I do not care about
phase noise. What I actually need is a divide by 5 with approximately
50% duty cycle, and I know that the input duty cycle is nearly 50%. I
will follow it up with a divide by 2 to give me approximately 50% duty
cycle, and approximately is good enough for my application.

BTW, I have found many ways to solve the problem, but am working on
generating the minimum hardware solution. Thanks to those who replied
constructively. In case anyone cares, I wrote a program to search the
entire state-transition-table search space, and applied the appropriate
rules to find just those transition tables that lead to a divide by
2.5. It was a fun exercise, but I was left with many answers, so now I
am writing a rule to select the minimum hardware solution.

Whatever- pretty dull stuff.

http://www.xilinx.com/xcell/xl33/xl33_30.pdf
http://www.e-insite.net/ednmag/archives/1997/081597/17di_01.htm

 

[Jim Thompson]

some idiot responded:


In your dreams- your post is barren of an engineering specifics- you are
not detail oriented- you are a sloppy programmer sloth.


Whatever- pretty dull stuff.

http://www.xilinx.com/xcell/xl33/xl33_30.pdf
http://www.e-insite.net/ednmag/archives/1997/081597/17di_01.htm

What is this Fred, some mental disease where you attack newcomers...
trying to establish/maintain your bully position?

You could go away and no one, I repeat NO ONE, would miss you!

...Jim Thompson

 

[Fred Bloggs]

What is this Fred, some mental disease where you attack newcomers...
trying to establish/maintain your bully position?

He's not a "newcomer"- he's a libertarian workfare recipient at U of
Minny-soda........

You could go away and no one, I repeat NO ONE, would miss you!

...Jim Thompson

Whatever- anyone who relies on USENET for a sense of belonging is in
***DIRE*** need of therapy.

 

[Jim Thompson]

[snip]

Whatever- pretty dull stuff.

[snip]
What is this Fred, some mental disease where you attack newcomers...
trying to establish/maintain your bully position?

He's not a "newcomer"- he's a libertarian workfare recipient at U of
Minny-soda........

Something wrong with being a libertarian?

"Minny-soda"? Isn't that where everyone wears Berkenstocks ?

Whatever- anyone who relies on USENET for a sense of belonging is in
***DIRE*** need of therapy.

Particularly with you around.

...Jim Thompson

 

[Winfield Hill]

Jim Thompson wrote...

You could go away and no one, I repeat NO ONE, would miss you!

To the extent your statement is true, Jim, the sober truth is
that it's probably true for all of us here...

Thanks,
- Win

whill_at_picovolt-dot-com

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

Jim Thompson wrote...

To the extent your statement is true, Jim, the sober truth is
that it's probably true for all of us here...

No, it's not.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[Jim Thompson]

Jim Thompson wrote...

To the extent your statement is true, Jim, the sober truth is
that it's probably true for all of us here...

Thanks,
- Win

whill_at_picovolt-dot-com

I would miss you, Win ;-)

...Jim Thompson

 

[Terry Pinnell]

No, it's not.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

(WHS)^2

 

[Jackson Harvey]

some idiot responded:


In your dreams- your post is barren of an engineering specifics- you are
not detail oriented- you are a sloppy programmer sloth.

These may all be true; I don't care. It is certainly true that I am a
sloppy programmer. That would bother me more if I did programming for a
living. It is somewhat true that I am not detail oriented; that I have
also learned to live with. As to engineering specifics, other posters
here seem to understand what I was asking for, so I guess it was good
enough. Thanks for your attempt at constructive criticism, though.

Whatever- pretty dull stuff.

http://www.xilinx.com/xcell/xl33/xl33_30.pdf
http://www.e-insite.net/ednmag/archives/1997/081597/17di_01.htm

Thanks for the links.

Jackson Harvey

 

[Jackson Harvey]

He's not a "newcomer"- he's a libertarian workfare recipient at U of
Minny-soda........

Ah, now we see the real issue. It is true that I am a libertarian, and
I am proud to say so. I am no longer at the University of Minnesota,
and the "workfare recipient" bit assumes facts not in evidence. Perhaps
I am not the only one who is not detail oriented?

 

[Jim Meyer]

I would miss you, Win ;-)

...Jim Thompson

So would I. Win promised me an autographed copy of the third
edition in payment for my old copy of the RCA Radiotron handbook. He
needs to stick around at least that long.

Jim

 

[Winfield Hill]

Jim Meyer wrote...

So would I. Win promised me an autographed copy of the third
edition in payment for my old copy of the RCA Radiotron handbook.
He needs to stick around at least that long.

I haven't forgotten!

Thanks,
- Win

whill_at_picovolt-dot-com