A frequency divider, also called a clock divider or scaler or prescaler, is a circuit that takes an input signal of a frequency, and generates an output signal of a frequency:
where is an integer. Phase-locked loop frequency synthesizers make use of frequency dividers to generate a frequency that is a multiple of a reference frequency. Frequency dividers can be implemented for both analog and digital applications.
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