counting every 1micro seconds using systick

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Content originally posted in LPCWare by black_ghost on Wed Oct 19 23:38:18 MST 2011
Hi everyone i am trying to use the systick timer as a delay functiion. i looked at the examples from the library and found the systick timer counting every 1ms. but i also want to use systick to count every 1us. does anyone have an idea. i am using lpc1769 by the way. i was thinking calling of using another systick handler or dividing by 1E6  again but dont think thats a right approach. 

volatile uint32_t msTicks;

void SysTick_Handler(void)
{
    msTicks++;
}
static void ms_delay(uint32_t delayTicks)
{
    uint32_t currentTicks;
    currentTicks = msTicks;
    while ((msTicks-currentTicks)<delayTicks);
}

int main()
{
    if (SysTick_Config(SystemFrequency / 1000)) // counts every 1ms
    {
    while (1);
    }
}

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Content originally posted in LPCWare by ToBeFrank on Fri Oct 21 15:43:46 MST 2011

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Quote: black_ghost
Hi everyone i am trying to use the systick timer as a delay functiion. i looked at the examples from the library and found the systick timer counting every 1ms. but i also want to use systick to count every 1us.

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If you want a delay with microsecond resolution, use a timer, not the systick.

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Content originally posted in LPCWare by NXP_Europe on Fri Oct 21 06:03:03 MST 2011
1us is extremely short if you need to take into account the overhead from the ISR, and any additional processing that you need to do, etc.  At 100 MHz 1us leaves you 100 clock cycles between each 'tick'.  That's not a lot if you need to do anything else.