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3 - Creating a ring oscillator from resistors and transistors.

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Slowing down a ring oscillator enough to make it tick seconds

pierre-loup-mPierre-Loup M. 07/30/2025 at 09:360 Comments

You may have seen it coming : just arrange any odd number of the previous circuit in chain linking inputs to outputs.

With three of them chained together, the circuit has a measured period of around 0.2us, which is a frequency of 5MHz.

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