Situation: You want to include a timer interrupt service routine in an assembly language program for an AVR-based Arduino. The program will be written, assembled and uploaded using the Arduino IDE.
Counter/timer hardware is a crucial component of most embedded systems. In some cases a timer is needed to measure elapsed time; in others we want to count or time some external events. Here's a ...
A timer is a simple counter! The input clock of microcontroller and operation of the timer is independent of the program execution.All the Atmel microcontrollers have Timers as an inbuilt peripheral.