DV164136 Microchip Technology, DV164136 Datasheet - Page 170

• Manufacturer Part Number: DV164136
• Description: DEVELOPMENT KIT FOR PIC18
• Manufacturer: Microchip Technology
• Series: PIC®r
• Type: MCUr

Specifications of DV164136

• Contents: Board, Cables, CDs, PICkit™ 3 Programmer, Power Supply
• Processor To Be Evaluated: PIC18F8722, PIC18F87J11
• Interface Type: RS-232, USB
• Operating Supply Voltage: 3.3 V, 5 V
• Silicon Manufacturer: Microchip
• Core Architecture: PIC
• Core Sub-architecture: PIC18
• Silicon Core Number: PIC18F
• Silicon Family Name: PIC18F8xxx
• Kit Contents: PIC18 Exp Brd PICkit 3 Cable CD PSU
• Lead Free Status / RoHS Status: Lead free / RoHS Compliant
• For Use With/related Products: PIC18F8722, PIC18F87J11
• Lead Free Status / Rohs Status: Lead free / RoHS Compliant

PIC18F8722 FAMILY
13.3.3
The Timer1 oscillator circuit draws very little power
during operation. Due to the low-power nature of the
oscillator, it may also be sensitive to rapidly changing
signals in close proximity.
The oscillator circuit, shown in Figure 13-3, should be
located as close as possible to the microcontroller.
There should be no circuits passing within the oscillator
circuit boundaries other than V
If a high-speed circuit must be located near the Timer1
oscillator, a grounded guard ring around the oscillator
circuit may be helpful when used on a single-sided
PCB or in addition to a ground plane.
13.4
The TMR1 register pair (TMR1H:TMR1L) increments
from 0000h to FFFFh and rolls over to 0000h. The
Timer1 interrupt, if enabled, is generated on overflow,
which is latched in interrupt flag bit, TMR1IF
(PIR1<0>). This interrupt can be enabled or disabled
by setting or clearing the Timer1 Interrupt Enable bit,
TMR1IE (PIE1<0>).
13.5
If any of the CCP modules are configured to use Timer1
and generate a Special Event Trigger in Compare mode
(CCPxM<3:0>, this signal will reset Timer1. The trigger
from the ECCP2 module will also start an A/D conver-
sion if the A/D module is enabled (see Section 17.3.4
“Special Event Trigger” for more information).
The module must be configured as either a timer or a
synchronous counter to take advantage of this feature.
When used this way, the CCPRH:CCPRL register pair
effectively becomes a period register for Timer1.
If Timer1 is running in Asynchronous Counter mode,
this Reset operation may not work.
DS39646C-page 168
Timer1 Interrupt
Resetting Timer1 Using the CCP
Special Event Trigger
TIMER1 OSCILLATOR LAYOUT
CONSIDERATIONS
SS
or V
DD
.
In the event that a write to Timer1 coincides with a
Special Event Trigger, the write operation will take
precedence.
13.6
Adding an external LP oscillator to Timer1 (such as the
one described in Section 13.3 “Timer1 Oscillator”
above) gives users the option to include RTC function-
ality to their applications. This is accomplished with an
inexpensive watch crystal to provide an accurate time
base and several lines of application code to calculate
the time. When operating in Sleep mode and using a
battery or supercapacitor as a power source, it can
completely eliminate the need for a separate RTC
device and battery backup.
The application code routine, RTCisr, shown in
Example 13-1, demonstrates a simple method to
increment a counter at one-second intervals using an
Interrupt Service Routine. Incrementing the TMR1
register pair to overflow triggers the interrupt and calls
the routine, which increments the seconds counter by
one; additional counters for minutes and hours are
incremented as the previous counter overflow.
Since the register pair is 16 bits wide, counting up to
overflow the register directly from a 32.768 kHz clock
would take 2 seconds. To force the overflow at the
required one-second intervals, it is necessary to pre-
load it; the simplest method is to set the MSb of TMR1H
with a BSF instruction. Note that the TMR1L register is
never preloaded or altered; doing so may introduce
cumulative error over many cycles.
For this method to be accurate, Timer1 must operate in
Asynchronous mode and the Timer1 overflow interrupt
must be enabled (PIE1<0> = 1), as shown in the
routine, RTCinit. The Timer1 oscillator must also be
enabled and running at all times.
Note:
Using Timer1 as a Real-Time Clock
The Special Event Triggers from the CCPx
module will not set the TMR1IF interrupt
flag bit (PIR1<0>).
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