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Comment: Created a Gliffy diagram to illustrate the hardware clocks

Summary of the Z88 hardware clocks :

9.8327 MHz : Blink Master Clock (MCK)

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3.2776 MHz : Z80 Clock (PM1)

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25.6 KHz : Blink Standby Clock (SCK)

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3200 Hz : Beeper

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200 Hz : Tick (5 ms interrupt, TIM0 counter)

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Gliffy
nameZ88 Hardware clocks

 The ratios between the Z80 clock and ticks are powers of 2 and thus directly driven by a 15 bits counter where :

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