[time-nuts] Why these Crystal Frequencies?
Rex
rexa at sonic.net
Thu Dec 15 03:40:10 UTC 2011
Brooke,
14.31818 is 4x the analog color burst (~3.58)
18.432 divides cleanly for baud rates. I've used it as a PIC clock for
that. I think some of the others may be too, but I didn't recognize or
do the math to see.
On 12/14/2011 7:13 PM, Brooke Clarke wrote:
> Hi Pete:
>
> Maybe you can shed some light on the common xtal frequencies table
> where there's no explanation given?
> http://www.prc68.com/I/pdf/Crystal_Freq.pdf
> An answer is not it's an "even" frequency or "it's an even binary
> frequency. That's true for most of these and the factors are part of
> the table above.
> The question is why do they exist?
> such as:
> 32.0 kHz
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