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Timer

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  1. Hello World!
  2. API

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!

Simple timer example

#include "mbed.h"

Timer t;

int main() {
    t.start();
    printf("Hello World!\n");
    t.stop();
    printf("The time taken was %f seconds\n", t.read());
}

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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