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Chapter 13 counters & timers, 1 introduction, Chapter 13 – INFICON IC6 Thin Film Deposition Controller User Manual

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IC6 Operating Manual

Chapter 13

Counters & Timers

13.1 Introduction

The IC/6 has twenty counters and twenty timers. These counters and timers enable
you to customize logic statements. Timers and counters are "up/increasing" value
variables. You can increment a counter or start a timer on any event via a logic
statement. These counters and timers can then be checked via other logic
statements to initiate one or more actions at a given count or when an elapsed
amount of time has passed. On the counter/timer screen, see

Figure 13-1

, you can

monitor all the counters and timers and by positioning the cursor on the counter or
timer number, manually zero a timer/counter (F1) or start timer (F2) or cancel a
timer (F3) using the function keys.

Figure 13-1 Counter/Timer screen