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- From: edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: 486DX2 Crystals
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- Date: 4 Jan 93 21:09:36 GMT
- References: <1992Dec16.011918.25341@eng.ufl.edu> <1992Dec20.164539.1@research.ptt.nl> <1992Dec30.064222.9259@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Dec30.064222.9259@netcom.com> gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews) writes:
- \walvdrk_r@research.ptt.nl (Kees van der Wal) writes:
- /\I believe the book. The book say that symmetric waveforms have no even
- \/harmonics, so the probably symmetric 25 or 33MHz clock has to be converted into
- /\something asymmetric to be useful.
- \/
- /
- \What does your book say about a Sawtooth (Ramp) wave?
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- /According to my reference, a Sawtooth wave has both odd and even harmonics,
- \whose amplitude is inversely proportional to the harmonic number itself.
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- Quite so. But a sawtooth wave is hardly symmetric. Turn the picture
- upside-down and you'll see--the ramp part now runs the other way.
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- A triangle wave, on the other hand, is symmetric:
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- /\ /\ /\ /\
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- And, it has no even harmonics. The absence of even harmonics in symmetrical
- waveforms can be proven with fourier analysis. (I'll save you the details,
- but they aren't hard to look up.)
-
- -Ed Hall
- edhall@rand.org
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