This chapter and the next look at the hardware features of the ATmega328P and should link up with the information presented in Chapters 2 and 3. You should, I hope, see how the Arduino Language talks to the hardware described in these chapters. This chapter starts by looking, long and hard, at the facilities of the ATmega’s timer/counters, while the following chapter delves into the ADC and serial communications hardware, the USART.
8.1 Timer/Counters
The Atmega328P has a total of three timer/counters named Timer/counter 0, Timer/counter 1, and Timer/counter 2. ...
