Re: Fastest TWGS and ZIP GS

[danb@pro-newton.cts.com (Dan Brown)]

In <28q93k$sh@r-node.io.org> taob@r-node.io.org (Brian Tao) writes:

>    Why do you need to increase the voltage to make a chip go faster? 
>Why isn't it enough to simply pump up the speed of the crystal?  I know,
>simply question, complex answer... :)

        Within limits, you can simply increase the speed of the oscilator
(sp?).  However, more speed takes more power (because of the way CMOS chips
work), so you'll eventually run out of power.  Simply increasing the voltage
will produce no speed increase.  Feeding 10 volts to your 2.8 MHz '816 won't
make it run at 8 MHz; it'll fry it.

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