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ARM?? Cortex?? M4 Cookbook
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ARM?? Cortex?? M4 Cookbook

by Mark Fisher, Dr. Mark Fisher
March 2016
Beginner to intermediate
296 pages
6h 34m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using timers to create a digital clock

A digital clock application provides a good platform to illustrate the components that we discussed in this chapter. We'll use PuTTY to allow the user to set the time and then call HAL_GetTick () to provide a time-base for our digital clock that is displayed on the GLCD. We'll call this recipe ticToc_c3v0.

How to do it…

Follow the following steps to create a digital clock:

  1. Create a new folder for the ticToc_c3v0 recipe and, within it, a new project (ticToc) and use the RTE manager to select board support for Graphic LCD.
  2. Copy the retarget.c, serial.c and serial.h files to the project folder and add them to the project.
  3. Define a new type (time_t) in the ticToc.h header file. Please note that we could declare each ...
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