Detailed Description

lbuild module: modm:platform:clock

The TC0 timer is used to provide a time point at milli- and microsecond resolution to implement the modm::Clock::now() and modm::PreciseClock::now() interfaces defined in the modm:architecture:clock module.

For this, the timer is configured to trigger a 1ms interrupt to increment the millisecond counter. To compute the microsecond counter, the 8-bit timer counter is used to interpolate between milliseconds via a 16x16=16-bit multiplication and shift to avoid a division. This is very fast, however, the resolution of the modm::PreciseClock is limited to at best ~4us (1000us/8-bit) and at worst ~32us ((2MHz/64)/1000us).