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free counter using fm1 with mke06z128

Iotelctronic — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:18:05 GMT

I am setting up a free counter to perform an upward count on MKE06Z128VQH4 using FTM1. My configuration is done via ConfigTool, as shown in the image. My current application uses an interrupt triggered by a rising/falling edge KBI to measure pulse signals. I already measured this signal with a logic analyzer, and it gives me approximately 480 µs for one pulse and 960 µs for another.

Since I configured my counter with a clock = 20 MHz and a prescaler = 16, I consider each tick to be 0.8 µs. Therefore, the counter values should be very close or fairly close to the expected values. However, the measured values are far from what I expected. I’m sharing my test code.

void interruption_kbi(void) { uint16_t now = FTM1->CNT; uint16_t dt; if (now >= last_time) dt = now - last_time; else dt = (0xFFFF - last_time) + now + 1; last_time = now; valor_timer = dt; timerarr[countim]=valor_timer; countim++; KBI_ClearInterruptFlag(KBI0); }

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the result is:

timerarr[0] uint16_t 451 timerarr[1] uint16_t 317 timerarr[2] uint16_t 307 timerarr[3] uint16_t 64540 timerarr[4] uint16_t 1767 timerarr[5] uint16_t 1173 timerarr[6] uint16_t 2343 timerarr[7] uint16_t 61048 timerarr[8] uint16_t 1751 timerarr[9] uint16_t 1174 timerarr[10] uint16_t 2347 timerarr[11] uint16_t 60455 timerarr[12] uint16_t 1750 timerarr[13] uint16_t 2344 timerarr[14] uint16_t 61050 timerarr[15] uint16_t 1171

Re: free counter using fm1 with mke06z128

Celeste_Liu — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 10:45:22 GMT

Hello @Iotelctronic ,

Thanks for your post.

From the ConfigTool screenshot, it appears that you configured the FTM in edge‑aligned mode and set the timer output frequency to 200 Hz. This means you have effectively enabled the timer period function, causing the counter to wrap around at the MOD value rather than at 0xFFFF.

I recommend trying the following two approaches:

1. Configure the counter as a true free‑running timer to avoid periodic wrap‑around

This allows CNT to increment continuously from 0x0000 to 0xFFFF.
Disable the timer-related settings in ConfigTool and add the following initialization code:

FTM1->SC = 0;

FTM1->MODE |= FTM_MODE_FTMEN_MASK;
FTM1->CNTIN = 0;
FTM1->MOD = 0xFFFF;
FTM1->CNT = 0;

FTM1->SC = FTM_SC_CLKS(1) | FTM_SC_PS(4); // CLKS=01 System clock, PS=100 /16

2. Keep the current ConfigTool configuration (200 Hz), but correct the wrap‑around logic in the ISR

In this case, the counter wraps at the configured MOD value rather than at 0xFFFF, so the wrap‑around calculation should use FTM1->MOD.
Updated ISR example:

void interruption_kbi(void)
{
uint16_t now = FTM1->CNT;
uint16_t mod = FTM1->MOD;
uint16_t dt;

if (now >= last_time)
dt = now - last_time;
else
dt = (mod - last_time) + now + 1;

last_time = now;
timerarr[countim++] = dt;

KBI_ClearInterruptFlag(KBI0);
}

Hope it helps.

Celeste

Re: free counter using fm1 with mke06z128

Iotelctronic — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:40:54 GMT

thank you for the response, I used the first method by configuring it manually, I verified that the counter is working well, however I am no longer using the counter with kbi, now I am using input capture which I think is better.