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Forum Topic - ClockPeriod questions about arguments: (3 Items)
   
ClockPeriod questions about arguments  
How small could I make the clock period and what consequences can arise from setting a smaller that 1ms clock? And if i 
set  a clock of 500 microseconds does that make the jitter smaller, for a gpio toggle of 1 milisecond done with timers.
Thanks,
George Vintila
RE: ClockPeriod questions about arguments  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gheroghe vintila [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com]
> Sent: March 27, 2010 9:12 AM
> To: qnx4-community
> Subject: ClockPeriod questions about arguments
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> How small could I make the clock period and what consequences can arise
> from setting a smaller that 1ms clock?

Increase CPU usage.

> And if i set  a clock of 500
> microseconds does that make the jitter smaller, for a gpio toggle of 1
> milisecond done with timers.

Depends what causes the jitter and how your program is designed.

> Thanks,
> George Vintila
> 
> 
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Re: RE: ClockPeriod questions about arguments  
First off all thanks for help, and secondly i want to give more information about the program:
The program settings are explained in my other post :    http://community.qnx.com/sf/discussion/do/listPosts/projects.
community/discussion.qnx4_community_support.topc12867  

What are the possible causes of the jitter after applying the settings described in the other post? I must be missing 
something because i cant believe that the jitter is normal.

Does it reduce the jitter if i set the timer period to the period of the signal that i want to put on the GPIO PIN?