Scanlab RTC 5 PC Interface Board Installation And Operation Manual page 397

Delayed Short save_and_restart_timer
List Command
Function stores the current value of the RTC
Call
save_and_restart_timer()
Comments • The stored timer value can be read by the
• The command is useful for measuring the marking time of a marking process.
• The timer only counts list-command clock cycles. The counter is paused during an inter-
ruption via
• To compare RTC
time measurements via the BUSY pin, you should insert a
save_and_restart_timer and set_end_of_list. This ensures that any scanner delay will
complete before set_end_of_list. Without list_nop, save_and_restart_timer includes
the scanner delay in its measurement even though it completes only after
set_end_of_list
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RTC 4 RTC 5 unchanged
References get_time
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5 timer and resets it to zero
set_wait or pause_list.
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5-internal save_and_restart_timer time measurements to external
(and therefore the BUSY pin is already low).
get_time command.
list_nop between
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