Re: Neptune timer bug

From: Boris Okun (bokun@home.com)
Date: Sun Apr 02 2000 - 12:15:15 EST


Dominik Kubla wrote:
[....]
> which buffers the value, so you can issue two 8bit read operations. But
> apparently the 82378IB needs some dead-time for the actualisation of the
> timer bits. If you access excactly at this time, the lower bits might be
> updated while the upper bits are not. This results in a later sample

Thank you very much! Do I understand the above correctly: sometimes the
result is (value_at_Freeze - 256)? And if I read it 2 times in a row
only one of the results can be bad?

Boris

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