Timer integrated circuits

Chip timers is a vast category of schemes of electronic devices, designed to measure in different ways, periods of time. This kind of layout of belt use oscillators to measure the time – clock crystal or RC system – to generate short periods of time, signals, time and others. These are then used to measure the time for the chip layout, and then to implement the other functions. This kind of elements, often configurable, for example you can adjust the duration time generated by the system. Such a configuration can be realized in an analog format, that is, by changing the values of the quartz oscillator or elements in the system RC, or also in digital form through the parallel line configuration or serial interface such as SPI or I2C.