Introduction.

Workshop PG5
Exercise Chapter3
General questions “Resources”
Question1:
What’s the difference between a counter and a timer once you load them with a
value?
Question2:
What happens if you decrement a counter which contains the value 0 ?
Question3:
What went wrong when you build your program and you’ll get the error message:
Fatal Error 368: Auto-allocation overflow for type: R
Solution2:
Timers are decreased by the system every X milliseconds. (Time can be set in
the Softwaresettings).
Counters are decreased/increased in the user program using the DEC / INC
instruction.
Solution:
Nothing. Timer/Counters only contain positive values. Therefore the counter
value will stay unchanged at 0.
Solution:
The dynamic range for registers in the “Software” settings is too small.
There are too little
addresses in the dynamic
space. Put the
first address to 3000.
In such a situation the
field called “Free”
will be at 0.
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