On Saturday 20 Sep 2003 8:12 pm, you wrote:
> Al Young wrote:
> > It uses a pair of D-flipflops to generate 2 separate pulse
> > streams, Up and Down.  These 2 streams are used as the
> > clock inputs for TMR0 and TMR1.
>
> Hi,
> Isn't it a bit of an overkill to use both some
> external curcuit and *two* timers to handle an encoder.
>

Well from the description it seems to be a quadrature encoder from which you
can extract both pulses and direction of rotation.

Ian

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