PIC Workbench Talk

[Regular Guy]

Was looking at 10F200 datasheet.

Saw the FOSC4 pin. Actually 'Function' in pin description.

Says Oscillator/4 Output.

What does the 4 mean?

Is this a good pin to connect oscilloscope to?

I suppose the other lead would go to ground.

Here is the datasheet.

https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/40001239F.pdf
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[temtronic]

The pin will have 1/4 of the PIC clock speed on it...
say the PIC is running at 4MHz, then the pin will have a 1MHz square wave as seen with an oscilloscope. It could be used as a 'clock source' for external peripherals or say another PIC.

Most PIC I/O pins have several uses, so you'll have to choose IF you want that function.

[Regular Guy]

Thank you

You beat me to it about pin being multiplexed.

Datasheet pin description also says this.

For that pin 4

TOCK1

Clock input to TMR0

Seems like that would take some work on control register.

Timer0 module. To make it clock in.
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[Ttelmah]

You almost never have to touch a register in CCS.

To set that pin to be a clock input, you use the setup_timer_0 function,
with the setting T0_EXT_L_TO_H (or H_TO_L).

This sets it to clock on the high or low edge of the clock applied to this
pin.