It is pretty simple to make a clock divider with odd frequency division
(let's say 3 or 5). But it doesn't have 50% duty cycle. Some
modifications are essential to achieve that 50% duty cycle. You might
argue, why so much fuss about 50%? To give you an insight into it,
consider the following divided waveform with 66% DC:
As you can note from the above waveforms:
- NEG-TO-POS arc (i.e. any path launching from a negative edge triggered flop and being captured at positive edge triggered flop) would have least time to meet the setup time requirement and hence can be critical.
- On the other hand, POS-TO-POS and NEG-TO-NEG are so much relaxed.