Hello, I'm using an stm32f103C8 and trying to produce a precise delay funcion. I'm using a HSE of 72Mhz so a I supposed the clock cycle is equal to 13.8ns. The delay function is simply a while(count--) where count has the specific number of times for looping to gain the requested time. I made an hypothese that while(count--) takes 3 cycles to execute. So when I need to make 1µs delay I put 24 in count.
But I found that I make 4us with count =24 that means 4 times the desired time. Please can you help identify this problem?
The important thing here is that you can almost always use a timer for creating delays without losing the ability of it to solve other problems too. A free-running timer can be used for polled delays and still constantly reprogram match registers on every match interrupt to let the match registers generate zero-jitter pin toggling. And the same timer could be both a PWM device and a fixed-frequency "uptime" generator.
Best of all? Most timers are quite easy to program, despite their capabilities.