Arduino Software Internals: A Complete Guide to How Your Arduino Language and Hardware Work Together

© Norman Dunbar 2020

N. DunbarArduino Software Internalshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5790-6_8

8. ATmega328P Hardware: Timers and Counters

Norman Dunbar¹ 

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Rawdon, West Yorkshire, UK

 

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. ...