This is something I’ve been thinking about for a while; could you make a 555 like timer using the PIC microcontrollers Core Independant Peripherals? The answer is, yes. Kind off.
While this may seem pointless, and yes I know it is, it was just something that I kept thinking about so in the end I had to do it to satisfy my curiosity. Anyway it’s a practical exercise in using the Code Configurator tool in MPLABX.
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