Hackaday

Tool Tip: Microcontroller Timer Calculator

In life and embedded systems timing is everything. Give [Frank’s] web-based timer calculator a try. Set your system clock resolution (in hertz making sure you account for any system clock divider), ...
EDN

Kitchen Timer Built Around PIC16F84 Microcontroller

The device makes use of a PIC16F84 microcontroller in order to create a kitchen timer that may be used to time spaghetti or an egg. The device makes use of a PIC16F84 microcontroller in order to ...
EDN

Use eight timers with PIC16Fxxx microcontrollers

The need for timing in embedded programming often exceeds the small number of available hardware timers in microcontrollers. For example, the Microchip PIC16F84A has one timer, but you can create as ...
Hackaday

Washing Machine Mechanical Timer Replaced With Microcontroller

After the electromechanical timer on [Paul Canello’s] washing machine broke for the third time he decided he needed to stop repairing it and find a more permanent fix. He decided to build his own ...
Electronic Design

Atmel’s Low-Power MCUs Integrate High-Speed Timers

Adding to the tinyAVR microcontroller family, the 20-pin ATtiny261, ATtiny461, and ATtiny861 pair 2 KB, 4 KB, and 8 KB of flash memory, respectively, with high-speed timers. Each operates at 20 MHz ...
Embedded

Introduction to Counter/Timers

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 ...
Business Wire

Toshiba’s Arm® Cortex®-M4-based Microcontrollers with Built-in Timers and Communication Channels Achieve High-Speed Data Processing

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (“Toshiba”) has added the M4G Group (1) to its TXZ™ Family of Arm® Cortex®-M-based microcontrollers for office automation (OA) ...