Interesting interactions

• What if other devices also need to use timer(e.g., PWM device)?

  • timer interrupts now need to be handled differently depending on which device’s alarm is going off

• Benefits of special-purpose output compare peripheral

  • output compare pins used exclusively for one device
  • each output compare has a separate interrupt handling routine

• What if we don’t have output compare capability?

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