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Old 4th Apr 2020, 19:44
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Originally Posted by DaveReidUK
A common tick counter period in real-time systems is 1.024 ms (don't ask me why!).
It is because 16MHz / 2^14 gives a period of 1.024ms, ie. 976.5625Hz
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