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Re: [AVR-Chat] How to measure a pulse width

2006-03-09 by Ned Konz

On Mar 8, 2006, at 5:38 AM, Zack Widup wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Ned Konz wrote:
>
>>
>>> I guess I forgot to say I was operating at 16MHZ. 16us is probably
>>> close enough. So I hook the sensor to PIND4 and set timer1 to a
>>> prescale of 256
>>
>> OK, that'd give you a resolution of 1/16 MHz (or 16usec).
>>
>
> 1/(16 MHz) = 0.0625 usec (62.5 nsec).  Much faster!

See, I shouldn't write emails past a certain hour...

Quite right!

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