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5 timer / counter connection – ADLINK ACL-8112 Series User Manual

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Registers

27

Digital Output (DO)

Digital GND (DGND)

Digital Input(DI)

From TTL Signal

To TTL Devices

ACL-8112

Outside Device

74LS244

74LS373

Figure 3.9 Digital I/O Connection

3.5 Timer / Counter Connection

The ACL-8112 has an interval 8254 timer/counter on board. It offers three
independent 16-bit programmable down counters; counter 1 and counter 2
are cascaded together as a timer pacer trigger for A/D conversions and
counter 0 is free for user applications. Figure 3.10 shows the 8254
timer/counter connection.

Counter 0

Counter 1

Counter 2

CLK0

GATE0

OUT0

CLK1

GATE1

CLK2

GATE2

OUT1

OUT2

2MHz

Oscillator

Vcc

A/D Trigger

CN3 Pin-34

CN3 Pin-37

CN3 Pin-33

CN3 Pin-16

CN3 Pin-35

INT

EXT

8254 Timer/Counter

Figure 3.10 Block Diagram of 8254 Timer/Counter