Counter

General

The counter 0–1 0 is destined for event counter operation.

For the counter 0–1 1, the following operating modes can be selected.

  • Event counter operation

  • Dead time measurement

Event Counter Operation

The rising edges are recorded at the counter input.

The counter status is registered with a fixed offset in relation to the network cycle and transferred in the same cycle.

Gating Time Measurement

Records the time between the rising and the falling edge of the gate input with an internal frequency. The result is checked for overflow ($FFFF) and corrected in accordance with the defined prescalers.

The recovery time between the measurements has to be > 00 μs.

The measuring result is transferred to the result memory with the falling edge.