Just starting programming, but I do have a bit of hardware experience.  I
know the basics of microcontrollers, but not the specifics on how to
accomplish things.

Looking at some of the previous replies, I would say that interrupts seem to
be essential, so I will start there.

--dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Harford [mailto:harford@gmail.com] 
Sent: 11 April 2008 20:47
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [PIC] Measuring time a DC signal is on

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:34 AM, Dave Roseman <dave@transpower.uk.com>
wrote:
>
>  I'm just starting PIC programming, so please forgive me if this is too
>  simple or obvious a question.

No such thing!  We all have to start somewhere.  Do you have any
programming / electronics experience?

To start, I would read up on how interrupts work in microcontrollers,
and I would look into section 4.2.3 and 14.3.3 of the datasheet,
'Interrupt On Change'.

Alex


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