Texas Instruments MSP430 User Manual

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Simulation
Explanation
In this demo, Timer_A3 is clocked with SMCLK divided by 8. SMCLK has a frequency of 1MHz and so
Timer_A3 is feed with a 125kHz clock. This gives us a timer tick period of 8 microseconds. Since the
timer is programmed to operate in continuous mode, i.e. it will count from 0 to top value of 65535,
the timer will overflow roughly about every 500 milliseconds. We, thus, have an interval window of
500 milliseconds.

Texas Instruments MSP430 Specifications

General

Brand	Texas Instruments
Model	MSP430
Category	Microcontrollers
Language	English