PIC Timer 1 preload value

augustinetez · Sep 19, 2022

Would somebody please check my maths for the preload value of Timer1 on a 16F1827 running at 4MHz.

I'm looking for a delay of 5mS, pretty sure I've screwed this up because it's taking a lot longer than 5mS on the hardware.

65536-(delay*clock freq)/(prescaler*4) = 65536-((.005*4000000)/(1*4))=60536 (EC78 HEX)

Thanks

Pommie · Sep 25, 2022

jpanhalt said:
I still have CodeTidy (dated 05/22/2008) installed.

I lost that many years ago. Keep thinking I need to write a new one that also does C. So many projects, so little time.

Mike.

Pommie · Sep 25, 2022

Out of curiosity I converted the above to C, so three lines in asm become 1 in C.
I.E.

Code:

      banksel  OSCCON
      movlw    b'01101000'    ;select 4MHz clock = 1MHz instruction cycle  
      movwf    OSCCON         ;Set PIC oscillator frequency         
becomes
      OSCCON=0b01101000;  //4MHz clock

And the whole thing becomes,

Code:

      OSCCON=0b01101000;  //4MHz clock
      T1CON=0b00000001;   //Timer 1 on
      CCP1CON=0b00001011; //Special Events Trigger
      CCPR1=5000;         //period = 5000
      while(1){           //loop forever
        while(CCP1IF==0); //wait for CCP1IF to be set
        ;5mS has passed
        CCP1IF=0;         //clear it
      }                   //end of loop forever

Note, CCPR1L/H can be accessed as a 16 bit variable

Mike.

Nigel Goodwin · Sep 26, 2022

Pommie said:

Trying a version with only spaces,

Code:

setup      
      banksel  OSCCON
      movlw    b'01101000'    ;select 4MHz clock = 1MHz instruction cycle   
      movwf    OSCCON         ; Set PIC oscillator frequency          
      banksel  T1CON
      movlw    b'00000001'    ;timer 1 on
      movwf    T1CON
      banksel  CCP1CON
      movlw    b'00001011'    ;Special Events Trigger
      movwf    CCP1CON
      banksel  CCPR1L         ;set timer 1 to repeat
      movlw    low(5000)      ;every 500 clock cycles
      movwf    CCPR1L         ;equals 5mS
      banksel  CCPR1H
      movlw    high(5000)
      movwf    CCPR1H
loop  
      banksel  PIR1
      btfss    PIR1,CCP1IF    ;wait for interrupt flag
      goto     loop           ;to be set
      ;5mS has passed
      bcf       PIR1,CCP1IF   ;clear it
      goto      loop

Mike.
Edit, appears it's tabs that cause the problem.

I would presume that it's simply that the forum software is expanding the tabs to a different number of spaces than the original editor did?.

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