That is thirty-two shades of gray, if you’re keeping track. The trick is using the internal PLL and a bit of math to calculate the proper resistor values. The result is just a test pattern ...

The entire system is basically a big homemade rotary position encoder. Real rotary position encoders use Gray code to prevent slight misalignments and border cases from being a problem.

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