Frequency Divider

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EngIntoHW

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Hey,

How can you design a frequency divider which divides the input frequency by 3?

It relates to digital systems, So I'd like to use Counters and DFFs.

Thanks for any help.
 
EngIntoHW said:
Hey,

How can you design a frequency divider which divides the input frequency by 3?

It relates to digital systems, So I'd like to use Counters and DFFs.

Thanks for any help.
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hi,
Which counters do you have on the bench.?
 
Hey Eric,

I got only DFFs, no counters.

It would be better doing it without using any counters, but I wasn't sure if it's possible.
 
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A Google search came up with this.
 
Well you can make a JK out of a D.
**broken link removed**
 
There are two configurations possible. One uses half cycle, one uses full cycles. Must use 50-50% input duty cycle signal and half cycle circuit to get 50-50% duty cycle on output. The full cycle divider gives a 67-33% output duty cycle. If you are using it to drive an RF mixer you want the 50-50% duty cycle.
 
Here is an old posting. It actually generates 2/3 of the input frequency, but you could just take the 1/3 frequency at S1 or S2.
 

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