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FX3U Series Programmable Controllers
User’s Manual - Hardware Edition
11 Use of High-speed Counters (C235 to C255)
11.9 Calculation of Response Frequency and Overall Frequency
1) Calculation of overall frequency
The overall frequency is calculated by the high-speed comparison instruction used in the program based
on the above table.
Overall frequency ≥ Sum of "response frequency of high-speed counter × Magnification for
calculation of overall frequency"
2) Example of calculation
When only HSZ instruction is used six times in a program, the frequency is calculated by the formulas
shown in the "Only HSZ instruction" column in the above table. 
High-speed counter No. to be 
used
Input 
frequency
Calculation of max. 
response frequency
Magnification 
for 
calculation of 
overall 
frequency
Instruction 
to be used
C237
Operation as 
software counter
20kHz 30 - 6(times) = 24kHz
×1
HSZ instruc-
tion is used 
six times.
C241
Software counter
10kHz 30 - 6(times) = 24kHz
×1
C253(OP)
[4 edge count]
2kHz {30 - 6(times)} / 4 = 6kHz
×4
1) The overall frequency is calculated as shown below because HSZ instruction is used six times.
    Overall frequency = 50 - 1.5 
×
 6 = 41kHz
2) The sum of the response frequencies of the high-speed counters used is
    calculated as shown below.
   "20kHz 
×
 1[C237]" + "10kHz 
×
 1[C241]" + "2kHz 
×
 4[C253(OP)]" = 38kHz 
≤
 41kHz