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From: rrw@naucse.cse.nau.edu (Robert Wier)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: sequencer...
Message-ID: <3023@naucse.cse.nau.edu>
Date: 9 Dec 90 05:00:18 GMT
References: <4758@tellab5.tellabs.com>
Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ
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From article <4758@tellab5.tellabs.com>, by verive@tellabs.com (Jeff Verive):
> There are a lot of ways to do this.  If you really want to, you could
> set up a state machine with flip-flop's and assorted gates, but this
> is fairly complicated for the uninitiated.  You might try counting 
> through some ROM, like you would do for an arbitrary wave generator, 
> but the simplest thing to do is to use any cheap oscillator (like the
> 555) and feed its output to the clock input of a CMOS 4017 decade 
> counter.  Works great (less filling, too!)  :-)
> 
> Jeff
  Or you could use extreme overkill, like we just did in our
 microprocessors course, and use an 8085 to do it!  :-)
 (this was a lab assignment)...


 - Bob Wier

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