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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

One could also say:

to count 1 second you have a count equal to the clock frequency in Hz, so to count 0.1 second the count will be the clock frequency in Hz times 0.1

or 50 MHz * 0.1sec = 5M clocks