Counting
Counting

"Very well, sire," the wise man said at last. "I ask only this: Tomorrow, for the first square of your chessboard, give me one grain of rice; the next day, for the second square, two grains of rice; the next day after that, four grains of rice; then, the following day, eight grains for the next square of your chessboard. Thus for each square give me twice the number of grains of the square before it, and so on for every square of the chessboard."

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Last Updated ( Sunday, 07 May 2006 )
 
Counting with the Binary Counter

All these tricks are from the manual.

If you connect a BinCounter to a DAConverter you can compare the output to e.g. a constant module and thus divide things up to 128.

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Use a sequencer instead of the constant module and you can do it 16 times in a row.

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If you want to count to 256, insert an inverter between the BinCounters' 128 output and the DAConverter.

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Last Updated ( Monday, 30 January 2006 )
 
Counting with the 8Counter
These tricks are from the manual:

Connecting an output back to the input will turn the 8 Counter e.g. into a 3 Counter.

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With an additional Mux and a Switch you can change the counting on the fly.

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With this technique you can e.g. change the length of sequences with a front panel button.

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Last Updated ( Monday, 30 January 2006 )