hi
i'm trying to drive a CMOS counter (40110B) from Belas digital outs, but i want it to run as fast as possible sometimes. or well, just insanely fast will do 🙂
the counters datasheet specifies a 110ns pulsewidth minimum, and a max clock speed of 1Mhz (recommended operation for 5v.)

if i understand the [delay] help file correctly, the shortest time i seem to be able to generate within Pd is a single sample at 44100hz, assuming that is the rate Bela is running at?
that would amount to 0.000023 seconds, aka 23 microseconds, aka 23000ns. that's about 200x the minimum pulsewidth, 20x slower than max clock speed, and therefore hopefully firmly within the safe zone.
that would be more than fast enough for my uses, but i just wanted to check if there's any mistakes in my thought process here.. any corrections?

    Remork if i understand the [delay] help file correctly, the shortest time i seem to be able to generate within Pd is a single sample at 44100hz, assuming that is the rate Bela is running at?

    One new bit is output every (1/44100Hz), therefore the highest clock frequency you can generate (alternating one 1 and one 0), is 22050Hz. If you are happy with this speed, you should be good.

      5 days later

      turned out to be a complete non-issue.. i'm trying to drive a 7segment display, turns out that it's common anode instead of common cathode. so it won't play nicely with the 40110. replacing that with an obsolete arduino i still have lying around, but that drops readout speed dramatically. i'll roll with it for now.
      thanks for the help anyway 🙂