Timer

Table of Contents

  1. Hello World!
  2. API

This content relates to a deprecated version of Mbed

Mbed 2 is now deprecated. For the latest version please see the Mbed OS documentation.

For the latest Timer API, please see Timer.

The Timer interface is used to create, start, stop and read a timer for measuring small times (between microseconds and seconds).

Any number of Timer objects can be created, and can be started and stopped independently

Hello World!

Import program
Timer_HelloWorld - main.cpp

00001 #include "mbed.h"
00002  
00003 Timer t;
00004  
00005 int main() {
00006     t.start();
00007     printf("Hello World!\n");
00008     t.stop();
00009     printf("The time taken was %f seconds\n", t.read());
00010 }

API

API summary

Import librarymbed

No documentation found.

Warning

Note that timers are based on 32-bit int microsecond counters, so can only time up to a maximum of 2^31-1 microseconds i.e. 30 minutes. They are designed for times between microseconds and seconds. For longer times, you should consider the time()/Real time clock.

Implementation

The timer used to implement this functionality is:

  • On the LPC1768: Timer 3 (LPC_TIM3)
  • On the LPC11U24: 32-bit Counter/Timer B1 (LPC_CT32B1)
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