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This document describes an Arduino frequency counter library. The library allows for measuring frequencies with high resolution and accuracy by using a 16-bit hardware counter on digital pin 5. It counts overflows to obtain a resolution greater than 16 bits. Gate times of 10, 100, or 1000 ms provide resolutions of 100, 10, or 1 Hz. An example program prints measured frequencies to the serial monitor with a compensation value to minimize errors.

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This document describes an Arduino frequency counter library. The library allows for measuring frequencies with high resolution and accuracy by using a 16-bit hardware counter on digital pin 5. It counts overflows to obtain a resolution greater than 16 bits. Gate times of 10, 100, or 1000 ms provide resolutions of 100, 10, or 1 Hz. An example program prints measured frequencies to the serial monitor with a compensation value to minimize errors.

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ArduinoFrequencyCounterLibrary

FromourThereminProjectIderivedthisFrequencyCounterLibrary.Thelibrarymakesitpossible
tomeasurefrequencieswithahighresolutionandaccuracy.

TheFrequencyinputisfixedtodigitalpin5.ThispinismappedtothealternateportfunctionT1
whichistheinput16BitHardwareCounter1.Toobtainahigherresolutionthan16Bit,thecounter
overflowsarecountedalsoandarecalculatedwiththecountervaluetothefinallongintegerresult.
TheFrequencySourceoutputmusthaveadigitallevelsothatweakSignalshavetobeamplifiedfor
instancebyansingletransistorora74HC14inverter.Themaximuminputfrequencyisabout8MHz
whensignaldutycycleis50%.

Ifyouliketomeasurehigherfrequenciesyouhavetouseanprescalerordividercircuitwhichcanbe
usedfromothercounterprojectspublishedintheweb.TheGateTimeforthecountingperiodcanbe
choseninthestart()functionwherevaluesof10,100or1000msarepracticableforaresolutionof
100,10and1Hzbutanyvaluecanbeused.Theinternalresolutionofthegatetimeis2mssothatthe
timecanbevariedintheincrementof2.Ifyouwishtominimizetheindicationerrorthevalueof
FreqCounter::f_compvariablecancompensateslightgatetimeerrors.Comparedtoancommercial
ACECOcounteritispossibletotrimthedeviationtoalmostzerooverthewholerange.Forgatetimes
of10,100,100thevalues1,10and100wherefoundtobegoodforourDuemilanovaboards.

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ExampleProgramm
#include<FreqCounter.h>
voidsetup(){
Serial.begin(57600);//connecttotheserialport
Serial.println("FrequencyCounter");
}
longintfrq;
Voidloop(){
FreqCounter::f_comp=8;//Setcompensationto12
FreqCounter::start(100);//Startcountingwithgatetimeof100ms
while(FreqCounter::f_ready==0)//waituntilcounterready

frq=FreqCounter::f_freq;//readresult
Serial.println(frq);//printresult
delay(20);
}

Preamplifierschematics

SourceCodes
Updated10/2010workswithatmega328removedsomeglitches
Updated1/2012Arduino1.0
Download>FreqCounterLibrary

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furtherquestionstothistopiccanbediscussedhere:
http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,64219.0.html
http://www.arduino.cc/cgibin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1231326297

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