With a 555 on the BOM, you never know what you’re going to get. With 40 of the versatile timer chips in a build, you might just get something completely unexpected, like this 555-based eight-bit ...

An accurate way to calibrate a frequency source is to use a high-resolution counter/timer to measure the beat frequency, or phase difference, between the source to be calibrated and a reference such ...

Counter/timer hardware is a crucial component of most embedded systems. In some cases a timer is needed to measure elapsed time; in others we want to count or time some external events. Here's a ...

The project employs a sliding window for calculation of multiple frequency updates per second on this frequency counter and timer. The project employs a sliding window for calculation of multiple ...

Two multifunction I/O modules feature both digital I/O and counter/timer functions on a single PMC module. The PMC424 provides 40 digital I/O channels for transistor-transistor logic (TTL) and ...

The Timer-APB core is a 32-bit counter/timer with an APB interface that can be used to schedule periodic tasks, and can act as a high precision time r ...

If you type a lot, it’s pretty handy to be able to keep track of how many words you’ve typed, whether you’re filing a paper or any other document with a word count requirement, or even writing a novel ...