[time-nuts] Of rubidium life and piggy-bank anemia....

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4751D10D.5050608 at xtra.co.nz>, Bruce Griffiths writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <4751C857.6020104 at xtra.co.nz>, Bruce Griffiths writes:
>>
>> You guys could save a lot of time if you read my paper where all
>> this is described in detail:
>>
>> 	http://phk.freebsd.dk/pubs/timecounter.pdf
>
>This paper addresses virtually none of the hardware design issues at all.

That was not the main focus.

The signals were indeed clocked through 3 D flipflops clocked on the
global clock, to handle metastability, before they latched the count
latches.

I probably still have the VHDL somewhere...

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