Save_And_Restart_Timer - Scanlab RTC6 PCIe Board Installation And Operation Manual

Delayed Short

save_and_restart_timer

List Command
Function Stores the current value of the
save_and_restart_timer()
Call
Comments • The stored
• save_and_restart_timer is useful for measuring the execution time of a marking
process, see
• The
interruptions by
get_lap_time
• By
zero can be queried.
• To compare RTC6-internal save_and_restart_timer time measurements to external
time measurements by the
save_and_restart_timer and set_end_of_list. This ensures that any scanner delay
completes 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
• A 32-bit "Timestamp Counter"
addition to the
RTC4RTC6 Unchanged functionality.
RTC5RTC6 Unchanged functionality.
Version info Available as of DLL 600, OUT 600, RBF 600.
References get_lap_time,
RTC6 boards
Doc. Rev. 1.0.21 en-US
10 RTC6 Commands
RTC6 Timer
RTC6 Timer value can be read by get_time.
Chapter 8.12 "Time Measurements", page
RTC6 Timer only counts list-command clock cycles. Counting is paused during
set_wait or pause_list.
the number of elapsed list-command clock cycles since the reset to
BUSY
(and therefore the
RTC6 Timer, see also
get_time
and resets it to zero.
281.
Pin, you should insert a
BUSY Pin is already low).
and a 64-bit "Timestamp Counter"
Chapter 8.12 "Time Measurements", page
list_nop between
are available in
281.
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