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13 years ago

Generating a 0.1 second tick with 50MHz Clock

Hi, I want to know how to generate a specifically times tick using a clock.. for example I want to create a tick every 0.1 sec using a 50 MHz clock. The book I am following simply states t...
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13 years ago

a simple rule is to invert MHz to get period in microsec then count how many periods in .1 sec:

1/50 = .02 microsec (clock period)

.1 sec = .1 * 1000000 microsec

hence you need .1*1000000/.02 = 5000000 periods