Amm,
        Not too sure what you mean by this message but if I'm right then
what you need to use is the stopwatch feature. This allows you to see in
actual milliseconds how long something is taking. This combined with using
breakpoints allows you to get acurate timings on various sections of your
code depending on the speed you set the clock to in MPLAB eg 4MHz.
        Also if using the breakpoints correctly and timing a long section
of code you may be better off not using animate. As Andy points out a few
messages ago it really is very slow. (It has to be for you to see indivual
instructions) Instead use straight run which is much faster. I've timed
loops up to about 850ms in quite reasonable times (1/2 hr or so) (I think
its very processor dependant.
        If you are actually interested in working out the speed in hertz
of the processing I'd suggest using the stopwatch for a 100ms loop and
physically timing how fast the computer processes it. You could then
calculate its speed relative to 4Mhz and hence its overall speed. I'm sure
others on the list would probably be interesed in these figures just to
get an idea of how much time it should take to simulate long events.
However I might add that I would think the computers efficiency would
probably be different to that of the pic. I.e. I doubt very much if every
instruction takes equal time on the PC to emulate. Probably very little in
the difference though. (Microchip ?? )
        I'd do this  myself only at the moment I'm rushing to finish a
project and I'm just after running into serious problems so time is of the
essence..

        I'd do this  myself only at the moment I'm rushing to finish a
project and I'm just after running into serious problems so time is of the
essence..
        If you'd like some timed loops to work on feel free to mail me..


                                                        David.


http://www.csn.ul.ie/~david



On Sat, 5 Jan 1980, Ken Dougal wrote:

> While running MPLab's "animate" debugging feature, I wondered how fast
> it might be running.  Would it be comparable to maybe a 100 Hz clock?
> Any guestamates?  Just trying to get an idea for how fast a 4Mhz clock
> might be.
>
> Ken
>