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Episode 93: How Computers Work Part III - Logic Gates and Components

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The Clock Generator and the Clock Signal That It Produces

The purpose of the clock signal is to act like a metronome. It keeps the activities of the computer in order and keeps them occurring at a regular rate. If you had to manually change the imputs every time you wanted to perform a computation on a computer, it would be kind of pointless because it would just be waiy too slow. The faster the clock operates, the more cycles the processes can go through in a given unit of time,. And thus the more processing it can get done. But how does the clock actually work? Whatclock signals are produced using a device called a crystal oscillator - essentially a small strip of quartz that vibrates as a result of the reverse

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