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AVR microcontroller allows prescaling or skipping number of 8, 64, 256, 1024. It also can be used for counter to skip certain number of microcontroller clock ticks. Prescaling is a process of generating a clock for timer by F_CPU clock.
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Timers are usually used in one of following mode:Īs we move further with tutorial series we will be using most of timer modes but for this article we will limits to an concept of prescaler and CTC mode.
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The two 8-bit timer-counter counts up to 255 and one 16-bit timer counts up to 65535. This means we have total 3 timers in our chip. Here in this case, we will use AVR Atmega32A microcontroller which has two 8-bit and one 16-bit timer. It means timers are totally independent of CPU. At other hand timers can run asynchronously with AVR core. It’s important to understand that timer and counter function In microcontroller simply count in synchronous with microcontrollers clock. The program or instruction is executed by microcontroller in rhythm with clock. Microcontroller needs a clock to drive process that is happening by our program. These timing and counting allows really cool things like counting, monitoring external event, frequency generation, controlling brightness of LED by PWM, controlling angle of servo shaft, receiving sensor data that transmit in PWM and many more….Īll microcontrollers have clock in them as an in-built peripheral and also one can add external crystal or resonator to generate more accurate counts. All microcontroller works at predefined clock frequency, they all have provision to set up timer for various applications.
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In the end we will look at real world example along with circuit diagram and code snippet. Instead of repeating content from datasheet and discussing register description we’ll focus on basic details. Timer is a fairly complicated topic in microcontroller. This tutorial is about Timer and Counter in AVR Atmega32A Microcontroller.