[time-nuts] Frequency divider design critique request

[Jim Lux]

At 10:41 AM 7/11/2008, David C. Partridge wrote:
>M
>All,
>
>CPLD - wassat?  OK, OK I have some idea, but that's about all I know.
>Anyway these are probably BGA stuff which I couldn't hope to hand solder
>anyway - it's enough of a stretch for me to think of hand soldering this SMT
>board.

CPLD -> small programmable logic device (think like a PAL, but 
bigger).. not BGAs, typically.  Anywhere from a dozen to a couple 
hundred gate equivalents.  Some are really, really fast (e.g. 1 ns 
prop delays, etc.)