Convert timer value to wall time

[tomkcook]

I'm setting up a timer like this:

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    timer_config_t tconf;
    tconf.alarm_en = false;
    tconf.auto_reload = false;
    tconf.counter_dir = TIMER_COUNT_UP;
    tconf.counter_en = true;
    tconf.divider = 1;
    timer_init(TIMER_GROUP_1, TIMER_0, &tconf);
    timer_set_counter_value(TIMER_GROUP_1, TIMER_0, 0);
    timer_start(TIMER_GROUP_1, TIMER_0);

When I read the timer counter (with timer_get_counter_value) how can I convert this to a timer (eg in ms)? I'm currently using:

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    uint64_t value;
    timer_get_counter_value(TIMER_GROUP_1, TIMER_0, &value);
    uint64_t t = value / (TIMER_BASE_CLK / 1000);

But this produces the wrong result. It's hard to say exactly how much wrong, but it's a factor of three or four out. On my system, TIMER_BASE_CLK = 80,000,000 - is that the base frequency of the timer?

Thanks for any help,
Tom

[tomkcook]

Further experimentation suggests that the code above is out by a factor of exactly two. It's not exactly clear why, but it seems that TIMER_BASE_CLK is twice the maximum timer clock frequency.

[ESP_igrr]

It looks like you are setting clock divider to 1. This means that the clock frequency will be 1/2 of the APB_CLK frequency.
Quoting the technical reference manual,

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