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From: kenny@osf.org (Kenneth Crudup)
Subject: Re: Question on Diamond Clock Synthesizer
Message-ID: <1992Oct19.215256.5037@osf.org>
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References: <1992Oct19.082420.16353@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <1992Oct19.151409.24581@osf.org> <1992Oct19.190736.11988@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1992 21:52:56 GMT
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Everyone's got their favorite "chip death" theory re: misprogramming this
stupid Diamond PLL. As you may have read, I don't believe a single word of
it.

SO I TELL YA WHAT-

As soon as my workload decreases somewhat, I will take the time to get the
"Batman" snippet running on my SS24X, and cycle it, 5 mins/at a time, thru 
some subset of the clock dividers, for enough of the values at the extremes
and we'll just see. Hell, I'll even leave my monitor connected. Give me
two weeks.

I still don't see how any USABLE (and I'm real damn sure about unusable)
monitor sync frequency generated could be outside the Pd range of a chip
*designed* for that purpose. 

Don't believe the hype.

	-Kenny
-- 
Kenneth R. Crudup, Contractor, OSF DCE QA
OSF, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142	+1 617 621 7306
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