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Hi, 
 maybe i have a silly question, but i didn't programm timers before. I know how they work. But how is it possible that there are only three Timers in the 51822 and so many parts of the programm part (PWM,BLE,GPIOTE...) which need a timer? How can i organize my timers? 
 and is it possible to run one timer and write a function like "get_actual_time" which gives me the time in the moment i call the function? 
 Best reagards, Nils :)

Philip Freidin · Accepted Answer

Hi Nils, 
 I don't have any sample code of the round robin scheduler
that I can share. 
 But I have attached my code for setting up RTC1 for a 1ms
interrupt, with two 32 bit counters for milliseconds and seconds
since the "beginning of time" . 
 To build the scheduler, you would add the timer_variables and
bool stuff after line 73. 
 You can use either of the two 32 bit counters to do some
other neat things in your code, like this: 
 [b] temp = RTC1_Milliseconds;
while(RTC1_Milliseconds < (temp+37)) {} // wait here for 37 ms 
 temp = RTC1_Seconds;
{
 // lots of stuff goes in here that takes a long time to execute
}
printf("Execution time in seconds: %6d
", RTC1_Seconds - temp);[/b]
 
 The example code supplied refers to one of my header files,
which must also be included in routines that use this stuff.
the only relevant lines to this example in the header are: 
 [b]extern uint32_t RTC1_Milliseconds;
extern uint32_t RTC1_Seconds;
[/b] 
 Enjoy. 
 RTC1_ms_timer.c

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