I need to count six fast (up to 30 kHz or so) pulse streams.  I have
to be very low power, about 50 uA average, so I can't just crank the
clock on a PIC and sample 6 port pins.   Before, to count one pulse
stream, I used the TMR0 in external clocking mode, and read it
periodically. Which worked great.

Now what I need are 6 TMR0s on one PIC.  I've used Intel 82C54
counters before, but they only come in byte wide bus interfaces, and
they have some stupid initialization problems.  Anybody know of a
counter or counter/timer chip that is very low power and uses some
kind of serial interface?

TIA,

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Barry King
Engineering Manager
NRG Systems "Measuring the Wind's Energy"
Hinesburg, Vermont, USA
barry@nrgsystems.com
"The witty saying has been deleted due to limited EPROM space"