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Lab Instrumentation — question 8 of 10

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You're setting up a logic analyzer to decode a SPI bus running at a 10 MHz clock. The analyzer on your bench can sample up to 100 MSa/s, but you don't want to just plug in whatever's available -- you want to know the real minimum sample rate you'd trust before believing the decode. Walk through how you'd figure that out, and give me a number.

This one resolves to a number. Give the value in the field below and your reasoning in the box — the number is checked exactly, by arithmetic.

MHz

Units and SI prefixes are understood, including schematic notation: 4k7, 2.2 uF, 1.5e-3 A.

How sure are you?

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