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5 and 10 MHz clock inputs

If, a device has 5 and 10 MHz clock inputs, will you generally get better performance with the 10 MHz?

What is the point of having 2 clock inputs?

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mike7411
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Because the device may *need* two different clocks and the device does not have the circuitry to generate one from the other. Now that's a little odd with 5MHz and 10MHz (a single flip flop), but not odd at all for a number of other frequencies.

I have a device that has a large number (4 to 9 depending on operational characteristics) of different clocks internally, and I supply two external clocks (not at any of the internal frequencies, amusingly) so the chip can generate them.

Cheers

PeteS

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PeteS

Impossible to say without knowing what the device is!

See above.

Dave :)

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David L. Jones

If you are talking about a piece of test equipment, different labs used different in house frequency standards.

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