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SCUTIMER Standalone Driver

Introduction

This page gives an overview of scutimer driver which is available as part of the Xilinx Vivado and SDK distribution.

Source path for the driver:
https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/tree/master/XilinxProcessorIPLib/drivers/scutimer

Driver source code is organized into different folders. Below diagram shows the scutimer driver source organization

scutimer
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-- Doc - Provides the API and data structure details
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- Examples - Reference application to show how to use the driver APIs and calling sequence
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- Source - Driver source files


Features Supported


Controller/Driver features supported


  • 32-bit counter
  • 8-bit prescaler
  • can be used in normal mode or auto reload mode
  • Support both increment and decrement counting
  • The Timer hardware supports interrupts


Known issues and Limitations

  • none

Test cases

Polled mode example

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/master/XilinxProcessorIPLib/drivers/scutimer/examples/xscutimer_polled_example.c
This example configures the timer/counter in the polled mode such that count decrements gradually, It illustrates the decrements in the counter value.
Output
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SCU Timer Polled Mode Example Test
Successfully ran SCU Timer Polled Mode Example Test

Interrupt mode example

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/master/XilinxProcessorIPLib/drivers/scutimer/examples/xscutimer_intr_example.c
This example initializes the timer/counter, enables auto reload mode and uses the driver in the interrupt mode.
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SCU Timer Interrupt Example Test
Successfully ran SCU Timer Interrupt Example Test

Changelog

2020.2

  • Updated makefile for parallel make execution and incremental build support.

2020.1

  • None

2019.2

  • None

2017.3

  • None