This fork of the MBED Library allows you to use counters on the external counter pins (15/16 for Timer 3, 29/30 for Timer 2) by switching internal timing functions in MBED to utilize Timer 0

Fork of mbed-src by mbed official

Revision:
13:0645d8841f51
Parent:
10:3bc89ef62ce7
Child:
304:89b9c3a9a045
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/targets/hal/TARGET_NXP/TARGET_LPC176X/us_ticker.c	Mon Aug 05 14:12:34 2013 +0300
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+/* mbed Microcontroller Library
+ * Copyright (c) 2006-2013 ARM Limited
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+#include <stddef.h>
+#include "us_ticker_api.h"
+#include "PeripheralNames.h"
+
+#define US_TICKER_TIMER      ((LPC_TIM_TypeDef *)LPC_TIM3_BASE)
+#define US_TICKER_TIMER_IRQn TIMER3_IRQn
+
+int us_ticker_inited = 0;
+
+void us_ticker_init(void) {
+    if (us_ticker_inited) return;
+    us_ticker_inited = 1;
+    
+    LPC_SC->PCONP |= 1 << 23; // Clock TIMER_3
+    
+    US_TICKER_TIMER->CTCR = 0x0; // timer mode
+    uint32_t PCLK = SystemCoreClock / 4;
+    
+    US_TICKER_TIMER->TCR = 0x2;  // reset
+    
+    uint32_t prescale = PCLK / 1000000; // default to 1MHz (1 us ticks)
+    US_TICKER_TIMER->PR = prescale - 1;
+    US_TICKER_TIMER->TCR = 1; // enable = 1, reset = 0
+    
+    NVIC_SetVector(US_TICKER_TIMER_IRQn, (uint32_t)us_ticker_irq_handler);
+    NVIC_EnableIRQ(US_TICKER_TIMER_IRQn);
+}
+
+uint32_t us_ticker_read() {
+    if (!us_ticker_inited)
+        us_ticker_init();
+    
+    return US_TICKER_TIMER->TC;
+}
+
+void us_ticker_set_interrupt(unsigned int timestamp) {
+    // set match value
+    US_TICKER_TIMER->MR0 = timestamp;
+    // enable match interrupt
+    US_TICKER_TIMER->MCR |= 1;
+}
+
+void us_ticker_disable_interrupt(void) {
+    US_TICKER_TIMER->MCR &= ~1;
+}
+
+void us_ticker_clear_interrupt(void) {
+    US_TICKER_TIMER->IR = 1;
+}