Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Prescalers
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.162755.897@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1991 16:27:55 GMT
References: <5463@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <5463@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> hack@math14.math.umbc.edu () writes:
>   In a recent Radio Electronics issue (dec 1990) they detail
>a frequency counter.  In their design they use a CD4017 decade
>counter together with a 7490 bcd counter as a prescaler.  The
>counter is the Harris ICM7216CIJI.  The Harris counter is a
>10MHz frequency counter.  They claim that with their setup the
>counter is good upto around 1.8GHz ...

The claim was retracted in a later issue.
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