Practice - Timer Overview
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Practice Questions
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What is a basic timer?
💡 Hint: Think about simple counting.
What does PWM stand for?
💡 Hint: Recall the concept of varying pulse widths.
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Interactive Quizzes
Quick quizzes to reinforce your learning
Which of the following is a function of a basic timer?
💡 Hint: Focus on what basic timers directly do.
True or False: PWM timers can produce constant-width signals only.
💡 Hint: Consider how signal width varies in control applications.
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Challenge Problems
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Imagine you are designing a home automation system that requires various timed events. Describe how you would integrate different types of timers to manage lights, alarm systems, and heater controls.
💡 Hint: Consider how each aspect of the system would require different timing functions.
Create a flowchart that outlines how a Capture/Compare timer could be used to measure the frequency of a sensor's output pulses in a monitoring system.
💡 Hint: Think through the steps from sensor activation to alert generation.
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