topic 5282 timer in ColdFire/68K Microcontrollers and Processors https://community.nxp.com/t5/ColdFire-68K-Microcontrollers/5282-timer/m-p/133684#M1286 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><DIV>What is the maximum timeout that we can provide using GPT module in 5282.</DIV></BODY></HTML> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:59:30 GMT rao 2006-04-26T10:59:30Z 5282 timer https://community.nxp.com/t5/ColdFire-68K-Microcontrollers/5282-timer/m-p/133684#M1286 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><DIV>What is the maximum timeout that we can provide using GPT module in 5282.</DIV></BODY></HTML> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:59:30 GMT https://community.nxp.com/t5/ColdFire-68K-Microcontrollers/5282-timer/m-p/133684#M1286 rao 2006-04-26T10:59:30Z Re: 5282 timer https://community.nxp.com/t5/ColdFire-68K-Microcontrollers/5282-timer/m-p/133685#M1287 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>what are you trying to do? if you are looking to periodically interrupt the proc, i think it would be easier to use the PIT timers. however, if you are going to use the GPT, i believe that the maximum timeout is a little under 17 million system clocks (2^24). if you are looking on an external clock, i think it can be much longer. looking at the datasheet, though i'm not 100% sure how to use the module, you can prescale the Pulse Accumulator by up to 65536, then this can be divided by 2^16, or a total time of nearly 4.3 billion clock cycles (2^32). let me know if this helps, or if it is wrong...hehe.<BR /><BR />Trevor</BODY></HTML> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:39:51 GMT https://community.nxp.com/t5/ColdFire-68K-Microcontrollers/5282-timer/m-p/133685#M1287 airswit 2006-04-26T12:39:51Z