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Stellaris^® LM3S1621 Microcontroller
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11.1
General-Purpose Timers
Programmable timers can be used to count or time external events that drive the Timer input pins.
The Stellaris^® General-Purpose Timer Module (GPTM) contains four GPTM blocks. Each GPTM
block provides two 16-bit timers/counters (referred to as Timer A and Timer B) that can be configured
to operate independently as timers or event counters, or concatenated to operate as one 32-bit
timer or one 32-bit Real-Time Clock (RTC). Timers can also be used to trigger μDMA transfers.
In addition, timers can be used to trigger analog-to-digital conversions (ADC). The ADC trigger
signals from all of the general-purpose timers are ORed together before reaching the ADC module,
so only one timer should be used to trigger ADC events.
The GPT Module is one timing resource available on the Stellaris microcontrollers. Other timer
resources include the System Timer (SysTick) (see 102).
The General-Purpose Timer Module (GPTM) contains four GPTM blocks with the following functional
options:
■ Operating modes:
– 16- or 32-bit programmable one-shot timer
– 16- or 32-bit programmable periodic timer
– 16-bit general-purpose timer with an 8-bit prescaler
– 32-bit Real-Time Clock (RTC) when using an external 32.768-KHz clock as the input
– 16-bit input-edge count- or time-capture modes
– 16-bit PWM mode with software-programmable output inversion of the PWM signal
■ Count up or down
■ Eight Capture Compare PWM pins (CCP)
■ Daisy chaining of timer modules to allow a single timer to initiate multiple timing events
■ ADC event trigger
■ User-enabled stalling when the microcontroller asserts CPU Halt flag during debug (excluding
RTC mode)
■ Ability to determine the elapsed time between the assertion of the timer interrupt and entry into
the interrupt service routine.
■ Efficient transfers using Micro Direct Memory Access Controller (µDMA)
– Dedicated channel for each timer
– Burst request generated on timer interrupt
Block Diagram
In the block diagram, the specific Capture Compare PWM (CCP) pins available depend on the
Stellaris device. See Table 11-1 on page 526 for the available CCP pins and their timer assignments.
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