timer_tick2ns()

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Synopsis:

unsigned long timer_tick2ns(unsigned long ticks);

Arguments:

ticks
The number of hardware timer ticks.

Description:

Convert the value returned by timer_diff() to nanoseconds.

The accuracy of the returned value is dependent on the resolution of the hardware timer tick and the time it takes to read the hardware timer.

For more information and a code example that uses this function, see by timer_start().

Returns:

The length of time in nanoseconds.

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