brilliant

why is it the simple solutions are so hard to see some times ?

thanks mark


On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 10:59:50 -0400, Mark Bishop wrote:

>Just have a counter in the interrupt routine that won't act until you get to
>.250
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Dunn [mailto:ddunn@TCAINTERNET.COM]
>Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 10:56 AM
>To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: timers
>
>
>16F877 chip @ 4 Mhz
>
>i'm considering using the timers in a project .. what i'd like is an
>interrupt every .250 seconds
>
>i'm already using timer2 for PWM
>i'd *like* to use timer1 for a counter
>
>somebody check my math for me please :
>
>timer0 runs at 1 Mhz (Fosc/4) ..
>
>most prescale you can get is 256 ..
>
>8 bit counter ..
>
>
>working all this out, the *slowest* i can get timer0 to run (on my
>calculator) is .065536 seconds
>
>is this right ?
>
>thanks,
>
>david dunn
>
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