Chapter 17 Periodic Interrupt Timer (S12PIT24B8CV2)
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17.4.1
Timer
As shown in
and
, the 24-bit timers are built in a two-stage architecture with eight
16-bit modulus down-counters and two 8-bit modulus down-counters. The 16-bit timers are clocked with
two selectable micro time bases which are generated with 8-bit modulus down-counters. Each 16-bit timer
is connected to micro time base 0 or 1 via the PMUX[7:0] bit setting in the PIT Multiplex (PITMUX)
register.
A timer channel is enabled if the module enable bit PITE in the PIT control and force load micro timer
(PITCFLMT) register is set and if the corresponding PCE bit in the PIT channel enable (PITCE) register
is set. Two 8-bit modulus down-counters are used to generate two micro time bases. As soon as a micro
time base is selected for an enabled timer channel, the corresponding micro timer modulus down-counter
will load its start value as specified in the PITMTLD0 or PITMTLD1 register and will start down-counting.
Whenever the micro timer down-counter has counted to zero the PITMTLD register is reloaded and the
connected 16-bit modulus down-counters count one cycle.
Whenever a 16-bit timer counter and the connected 8-bit micro timer counter have counted to zero, the
PITLD register is reloaded and the corresponding time-out flag PTF in the PIT time-out flag (PITTF)
register is set, as shown in
. The time-out period is a function of the timer load (PITLD) and
micro timer load (PITMTLD) registers and the bus clock f
BUS
:
time-out period = (P 1) * (PITLD + 1) / f
BUS
.
For example, for a 40 MHz bus clock, the maximum time-out period equals:
256 * 65536 * 25 ns = 419.43 ms.
The current 16-bit modulus down-counter value can be read via the PITCNT register. The micro timer
down-counter values cannot be read.
The 8-bit micro timers can individually be restarted by writing a one to the corresponding force load micro
timer PFLMT bits in the PIT control and force load micro timer (PITCFLMT) register. The 16-bit timers
can individually be restarted by writing a one to the corresponding force load timer PFLT bits in the PIT
forceload timer (PITFLT) register. If desired, any group of timers and micro timers can be restarted at the
same time by using one 16-bit write to the adjacent PITCFLMT and PITFLT registers with the relevant
bits set, as shown in
.
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