From: "James Newtons Massmind" <jamesnewton@massmind.org>
To: "'Microcontroller discussion list - Public.'" <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 6:08 PM
Subject: RE: [EE] AND-OR-AND - simplest implementation?


>I think I understand your suggestion, but doesn't the prescaler output 
>cause
> the counter to stop counting? Is that what you ment by "clock out the
> prescaler"?
>
> ---
> James Newton: PICList webmaster/Admin

"Clocking out the prescaler" means providing enough additional input clocks 
to the prescaler to cause the main counter to count once more. By counting 
the number of such additional counts required you can determine what the 
value of the prescaler was when you stopped the measurement, thus giving you 
extra precision equal to the number of bits in the prescaler.

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems

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