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System Clock Tutorial

The clock is a square wave generator whose frequency is controlled by a crystal. In a typical control system it oscillates at 1MHz (1 million times a second) and controls the speed at which the system operates.

The 6502 CPU has two clock signals, phase 1 and phase 2.

The clock control the times at which operations such as fetch etc, take place.

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