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Timers
The AOP-12d includes an NEC µPD71054 timer chip which is equivalent to an
Intel 8254.
The timer chip contains three independent 16 bit counters which may be
operated in different modes. There are five basic modes of operation with each
mode providing a different output signal from the three output pins of the
device.
IMPORTANT
Timers 0 and 1 are crucial to the operation of the board. The DAC
section is controlled by the output of these timers so for all operating
modes of the DAC, these timers must be configured to run. See the
section on TIMER INITIALISATION for code examples to configure
these timers.
The reference clock for timers 0 and 2 is 1Mhz. Timer 1 is in series with the
output of timer 0.
Timer 0 is committed as the first divider for DMA in the AOP-12d and its
output is also available on the external connector.
Timer 2 is uncommitted in the AOP-12d and its output is available on the
external connector.
In DMA mode, timers 0 and 1 set the rate at which data is DMA’d. To set a
particular DMA rate, use the following equation:
Note that the 1 MHz clock is divided by 8 by the circuitry giving
a reference of 125 KHz
DMA RATE (in Hz) = 1250000 / divider
where “divider” = (65536 * TIMER 1 value) + (TIMER 0 value)
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