Counter

This article is about the term counter used in electronics and computing. For other meanings of counter, see counter (disambiguation)

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In general, a counter is a device which stores (and sometimes displays) the number of times a particular event or process has occurred often in relationship to a clock signal. In practice, there are two types of counters:

Related Topics:
Event - Process - Clock signal

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• up counters which increase (increment) in value
• down counters which decrease (decrxement) in value
 
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