Olin wrote:
> Bob Ammerman wrote:
>> I don't think CCP would be much help for pulses in the range of "a few
>> microseconds", but I could be wrong.
>
> The original post was so garlbled and badly worded it's hard to know what=
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> is
> being asked.
>
> I guess you'd actually need two CCP modules for measuring short pulse
> widths, as apposed to the period between pulses.  The time can be measure=
d
> in units of instructions, which can be 5 per microsecond even for a
> conventional PIC 16.  So if 1 part in 10 is good enough, then two CCP
> modules can measure a pulse width "a few microseconds" wide.

Brilliant. I never would have thought about using 2 CCP's.

-- Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems

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