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13 years ago

Quirk with my clocks

I'm building a Binary Game for my final project in Digital Logic and Design and a small portion of this game I'm building uses a countdown timer to show how much time you have left in your round. ...
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13 years ago

you need to align the two countings such that when counter1sec = 0 ~ 9 it aligns with counter10sec 0 for 10 clocks.

If you are using two independent clocks you are likely to run into trouble. use fast clock as usual for both counters then use clockenable e.g.

when counter1sec = 9 then count down the other counter.