COP888CL Datasheet, PDF (19/42 Pages) Texas Instruments – COP888CL 8-Bit Microcontroller

Timers (Continued)
ters. Each register acts in conjunction with a pin. The register
RxA acts in conjunction with the TxA pin and the register RxB
acts in conjunction with the TxB pin.
The timer value gets copied over into the register when a
trigger event occurs on its corresponding pin. Control bits,
TxC3, TxC2 and TxC1, allow the trigger events to be speci-
fied either as a positive or a negative edge. The trigger
condition for each input pin can be specified independently.
The trigger conditions can also be programmed to generate
interrupts. The occurrence of the specified trigger condition
on the TxA and TxB pins will be respectively latched into the
pending flags, TxPNDA and TxPNDB. The control flag Tx-
ENA allows the interrupt on TxA to be either enabled or
disabled. Setting the TxENA flag enables interrupts to be
generated when the selected trigger condition occurs on the
TxA pin. Similarly, the flag TxENB controls the interrupts
from the TxB pin.
Underflows from the timer can also be programmed to gen-
erate interrupts. Underflows are latched into the timer TxC0
pending flag (the TxC0 control bit serves as the timer under-
flow interrupt pending flag in the Input Capture mode). Con-
sequently, the TxC0 control bit should be reset when enter-
ing the Input Capture mode. The timer underflow interrupt is
enabled with the TxENA control flag. When a TxA interrupt
occurs in the Input Capture mode, the user must check both
the TxPNDA and TxC0 pending flags in order to determine
whether a TxA input capture or a timer underflow (or both)
caused the interrupt.
Figure 10 shows a block diagram of the timer in Input Cap-
ture mode.
TIMER CONTROL FLAGS
The timers T1 and T2 have indentical control structures. The
control bits and their functions are summarized below.
TxC0
Timer Start/Stop control in Modes 1 and 2 (Pro-
cessor Independent PWM and External Event
Counter), where 1 = Start, 0 = Stop
Timer Underflow Interrupt Pending Flag in
Mode 3 (Input Capture)
TxPNDA Timer Interrupt Pending Flag
TxPNDB Timer Interrupt Pending Flag
TxENA Timer Interrupt Enable Flag
TxENB Timer Interrupt Enable Flag
1 = Timer Interrupt Enabled
0 = Timer Interrupt Disabled
TxC3 Timer mode control
TxC2 Timer mode control
TxC1 Timer mode control
FIGURE 10. Timer in Input Capture Mode
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