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16 years ago

alt_timestamp() question

Hi! I am just wondering if my understanding of the alt_timestamp is totally wrong... My oszillator clock is 50MHz which i can see in the sopc builder and which has never changed. I configured ...
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16 years ago

The HAL functions for the 'performance' counters take a lot of clock cycles ...

This may not matter for you, I got out HW chaps to put in 32bit counters for sys_clk itself and 1ms derived from it.

(And anther derived from an asynchronous 8MHz network clock they they forgot to synchronise to sys_clk before counting.)