One pin, one component oscillator with GA144



Chuck Moore has published the code to run an oscillator on one
processor of a GA114 chip. It uses a single 10 Mhz resonator and no
other components hanging off one pin. This works in principle also
with a crystal (which led to some controversy here), but it is harder
to get started because of the enormous q-factor of a crystal.

This hinges on submicrosecond switching between input and
output on the same pin, and the ability to wait for a zero
and the ability to wait for a one on that same pin.

http://www.colorforth.com/b942.htm
(6 lines of code and two lines starting the oscillation.)

To understand the code you may need a visit to
http://www.colorforth.com/etherCode.htm
http://www.greenarraychips.com/index.html

Groetjes Albert

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