Nope - you do that in the program by keeping track of the transitions. Your
program loop must take less time than one counter cycle, otherwise you will
miss counts.

If you want to be able to just read the time, look at a timer chip, as
suggested by others - I've never used one, so I can't be of much help

Larry

At 01:22 PM 12/10/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Will the 14 stage counter actually increment the number of pulses? What I'd
>like to do is have a chip that will tell me what second (half-second, etc.)
>I'm on, rather than just outputting a pulse every second (half, etc.). This
>is in case the Stamp takes say 1 sec where it should have taken 1/2 sec to
>complete an instruction, I'd like to know that the data I'm logging were
>gathered .5 sec late.

Larry Bradley
Orleans (Ottawa), Ontario, CANADA

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