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Timer0: is my thinking correct??

 
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Timer0: is my thinking correct??
PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:37 pm     Reply with quote

Hi All,

I am using a 12F629 device with the internal 4 MHz oscillator. With this configuration, I believe that each clock cycle is 1 us, and thus the Timer0 can potentially increment every 4 us (Fosc/4). Is that correct?

Then if I further prescale this value by 16, the actual timer increment period
is 64 uS (16 X 4 uS).

Am I thinking about this correctly, because I'm getting consistently strange results when I try to use Timer0 to measure the duration of a known pulse width.

[code}

setup_counters( RTCC_INTERNAL, RTCC_DIV_16 );

[/code]

Thanks,

Charles
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:43 pm     Reply with quote

Quote:

I am using a 12F629 device with the internal 4 MHz oscillator. With this
configuration, I believe that each clock cycle is 1 us, and thus the
Timer0 can potentially increment every 4 us (Fosc/4). Is that correct?

The oscillator freq is 4 MHz, so the oscillator period is 250 ns.

The instruction cycle clock is 1/4 of the oscillator freq. Therefore
it's 1 MHz, and the instruction cycle clock period is 1 us.

The timers run off the instruction cycle clock.
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