What is extended compare mode in timer?

[ParthivP]

I was going through the timer resources and I found a function nrf_drv_timer_extended_compare . Can someone please explain me what this function does?

[Krzysztof Chruscinski]

It mainly enables you to configure shorts along with CC channel. Basically, you can do the same thing with nrf_drv_timer_extended_compare() as with nrf_drv_timer_compare() plus shorts. The reasons for creating 2 functions is:

• to have simpler function for common use cases (nrf_drv_timer_compare)
• simpler function has 4 arguments and that's more robust (all arguments passed through registers)