This component implements a free running counter for time measurement. The 8-bit software counter counts events that occur at regular time intervals. The events are caused by a hardware timer that is set by Processor Expert to generate the events with a specified frequency/period.

The component can return the measured time (from the last reset) in the main oscillator ticks or in microseconds, milliseconds or seconds. Refer to the corresponding component methods. If the counter overflows, all these methods return error code and the user must invoke a "Reset" method to clear the counter.