Laptop User Manual
S3C2440A RISC MICROPROCESSOR     PWM TIMER 
  10-5 
TIMER INITIALIZATION USING MANUAL UPDATE BIT AND INVERTER BIT 
An auto reload operation of the timer occurs when the down counter reaches 0. So, a starting value of the TCNTn 
has to be defined by the user in advance. In this case, the starting value has to be loaded by the manual update 
bit. The following steps describe how to start a timer: 
1) Write the initial value into TCNTBn and TCMPBn. 
2) Set the manual update bit of the corresponding timer. It is recommended that you configure the inverter on/off 
bit. (Whether use inverter or not). 
3) Set start bit of the corresponding timer to start the timer (and clear the manual update bit). 
If the timer is stopped by force, the TCNTn retains the counter value and is not reloaded from TCNTBn. If a new 
value has to be set, perform manual update. 
NOTE 
Whenever TOUT inverter on/off bit is changed, the TOUTn logic value will also be changed whether the 
timer runs. Therefore, it is desirable that the inverter on/off bit is configured with the manual update bit. 










