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Re: Help needed timing a pulse (2004 Robovation)

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
That would be why you'd prefer having the timer in 16-bit read mode. In this mode, when TMRxL is read, TMRxH is instantly copied to a buffer, which can be read without fear of this problem. Writing is reversed. you write to TMRxH, which is stored to a buffer, then wrtie to TMRxL, which write that value and copies the buffer to the timer at the exact same time.
okay thanks, thats much clearer now.. I'd probably missed it when reading the datasheets
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