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

2006-03-09 by Zack Widup

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Ned Konz wrote:

> 
> 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!
> 

Yeah, we all do that once in a while.  How many times have I done 
something similar?  :)

Zack

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