25 Aug
2014
25 Aug
'14
12:20 p.m.
Perhaps:
Clock - line changes state at a constant rate drives other logic
Strobe - line changes state when an event occurs, drives other logic
In chip terms they are both 'clock' lines they tell the rest of the
mechanism to cycle, but from a use standpoint one is constant and one
is intermittent.
--Chuck
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:
On Aug 25, 2014, at 11:36 , drlegendre . <drlegendre at gmail.com> wrote:
Huh, ok. So.. strobe is a meta-term for a line
that pulses with some
regularity? Seems like kind of a redundant term, since we have 'pulse' as
well.
Any signal can pulse. The term "strobe" usually carries the connotation that
the pulse latches or otherwise qualifies values present on other signals. I guess that you
might say that "pulse" is what is does, and "strobe" is why it does
it.
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/