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    PIC microcontrollers contain timer modules that allow them to accurately measure time which is important for applications that use time as a variable. The basic timer in PICs is Timer0, which consists of an 8-bit counter and prescaler. Timer0 can be configured to count internal machine cycles or external pulses. The prescaler divides the input pulses by a programmable factor before feeding them to the counter. When the counter reaches its maximum value it overflows and can trigger an interrupt.

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    PIC microcontrollers contain timer modules that allow them to accurately measure time which is important for applications that use time as a variable. The basic timer in PICs is Timer0, which consists of an 8-bit counter and prescaler. Timer0 can be configured to count internal machine cycles or external pulses. The prescaler divides the input pulses by a programmable factor before feeding them to the counter. When the counter reaches its maximum value it overflows and can trigger an interrupt.

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    PIC microcontrollers contain timer modules that allow them to accurately measure time which is important for applications that use time as a variable. The basic timer in PICs is Timer0, which consists of an 8-bit counter and prescaler. Timer0 can be configured to count internal machine cycles or external pulses. The prescaler divides the input pulses by a programmable factor before feeding them to the counter. When the counter reaches its maximum value it overflows and can trigger an interrupt.

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    PIC microcontrollers contain timer modules that allow them to accurately measure time which is important for applications that use time as a variable. The basic timer in PICs is Timer0, which consists of an 8-bit counter and prescaler. Timer0 can be configured to count internal machine cycles or external pulses. The prescaler divides the input pulses by a programmable factor before feeding them to the counter. When the counter reaches its maximum value it overflows and can trigger an interrupt.

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    Timers

    • Many microcontroller applications, such as generating signals,


    measuring the duration of a signal, and keeping date and time,
    use time as their variable.
    • For this reason, microcontrollers need to have internal
    resources to accurately measure time.
    • Each PIC microcontroller has at least one basic timer module
    called Timer0, although the majority of medium-end PICs can
    have two additional timers: Timer1 and Timer2.
    • In addition, some
    • PICs have capture/compare/PWM (CCP) modules that
    increase the possibilities of the basic timers.

    Timers
    • Each one of the timers in a medium-end PIC microcontroller is
    based on an 8-bit or 16-bit incrementing synchronous counter.
    • These counters can be programmed to count internal or
    external pulses.
    • The count number stored by each counter can be read or
    modified by accessing the special function registers associated
    with that timer.
    • Some of the bits in these registers are used to notify of counter
    overflow, being able to generate an interrupt request to the
    microcontroller.

    Timers in PIC
    Microcontrollers
    • Timer0 consists of a prescaler and an 8-bit incrementing
    synchronous counter that can be read or written using the
    special function register TMR0
    • The prescaler is an asynchronous counter with a
    programmable division factor.
    • Timer0 can be configured to count machine cycles or to
    count external pulses. When counting machine cycles it is
    said to operate as a timer.
    • When counting external pulses, it is said that it operates
    as a counter.

    Timer Module
    • The division factor (P) for the prescaler assigned to
    Timer0 can have the
    • following values:
    • P = 2, 4,…, 2n+1,…, 256, (6.2)
    • with n = 0, 1, …, 7 being the value stored in bits
    PS2:PS0.
    • When the prescaler is assigned to the WDT, the division
    factor is P = 1,
    • 2, 4, …, 2n, 2n+1, …, 128, as shown in table 2.1.
    • The overflow time for Timer0 can be calculated as follows. Let N be the
    • number of pulses that need to reach Timer0 to overflow it, P the prescaler
    • division factor, and Ti the period of the pulses at the input of the prescaler.
    • If Timer0 works as a timer, then Ti is the duration of a machine cycle; if it
    • operates as a counter, Ti is the period of the external pulses. The overflow
    • time (To) can be found as
    • Note that the value stored in the TMR0 register is not N but its 2-complement
    • using 8 bits, which is the value that N needs to reach 256
    • If Timer0 works as a timer (counting machine cycles) it is necessary to
    • keep in mind that the counting is inhibited during two machine cycles
    • after writing data in the TMR0 register. Therefore, the value that needs to
    • be loaded in the TMR0 is

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