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initial count has expired OUT goes low for the re-
mainder of the count Mode 3 is periodic the se-
quence above is repeated indefinitely An initial
count of N results in a square wave with a period of
N CLK cycles
GATE e 1 enables counting GATE e 0 disables
counting If GATE goes low while OUT is low OUT is
set high immediately no CLK pulse is required A
trigger reloads the Counter with the initial count on
the next CLK pulse Thus the GATE input can be
used to synchronize the Counter
After writing a Control Word and initial count the
Counter will be loaded on the next CLK pulse This
allows the Counter to be synchronized by software
also
Writing a new count while counting does not affect
the current counting sequence If a trigger is re-
ceived after writing a new count but before the end
of the current half-cycle of the square wave the
Counter will be loaded with the new count on the
next CLK pulse and counting will continue from the
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