Timer and Interrupt


Posted on Jul 25, 2012

There are 4 timers in PIC18 which are timer0 to timer3. Timers are used when precise timing event need to be generated. Timers are usually used in conjunction with interrupt to keep the timing accurate. This guide will show an example of using timer0 to count a timer for every second. The circuit used for this example is the same as the circuit used in the PWM guide. The back light of the LCD will blink on and off every second, while the counter on the LCD will increase until it reaches 199 then reset back to 0. The counting of second is implemented using an interrupt service routine. The guide will be divided in to 2 parts, 1st part dealing with the setting on Timer0 and the second on the interrupt service routine.


Timer and Interrupt
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The first part would be setting up the timer to overflow every 1s. Timer overflow occurs when TMR0 go froms 0xFFFF to 0x0000. Since the PIC is running at 8Mhz, the reload needed for the timer can be calculated. To achieve overflow 1s the timer will be set in 16 bit mode. Prescaler of timer0 is set to 64 and the reload value to 34286 or 0x85EE. With this value 1s overflow can be achieved. The calculation below give the time taken for the overflow with TMR0 set to 34286. (1 / (8 000 000 / 4)) * 64 is the time for each count of timer0. (65 536 - 34 286) * (1 / (8 000 000 / 4)) * 64 = 1 Code below is used to set the timer in to the required reload value and mode. Since that C18 does not create ISR automatically, a goto instruction must be created at the vector to redirect the interrupt to the appropriate ISR. In this example only the high priority ISR is used, the code below shows the setting for the ISR. A code section is created at 0x08 which is the high interrupt vector to redirect the interrupt to the ISR. Inside the ISR the timer period is reloaded back to 34286 so that 1s interrupt can be achieved. check is set in the ISR to tell the main program to update the LCD.




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