RTC
®
5 PC Interface Board
Rev. 1.9 e
10 Commands And Functions
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Delayed Short
List Command
save_and_restart_timer
Function
stores the current value of the RTC
®
5 timer and resets it to zero
Call
save_and_restart_timer()
Comments
• The stored timer value can be read by the
command.
• The command is useful for measuring the marking time of a marking process.
• The timer only counts list-command clock cycles. The counter is paused during an inter-
or
• To compare RTC
®
5-internal
save_and_restart_timer
time measurements to external
time measurements via the BUSY pin, you should insert a
save_and_restart_timer
and
. This ensures that any scanner delay will
complete before
. Without
save_and_restart_timer
includes
the scanner delay in its measurement even though it completes only after
(and therefore the BUSY pin is already low).
RTC
®
4
RTC
®
5 unchanged
References