Make A Program wait for nano seconds

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Is it possible to make my application wait for a period of nano seconds?
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Help please.

Posted 30-Dec-10 20:04pm

alaayesh

Updated 30-Dec-10 20:09pm

TweakBird

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CPallini 5-Jan-11 17:25pm

Have a look at this illuminating article of Luc Pattyn: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/LP_TimerTest.aspx

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2011-01-05T10:52:00

Windows is not that accurate. Abotu the best you can do is get a delay mesaured in microseconds. Since Windows is a shared system, it can and will be doing other things that will delay your codes return from such a function call that "sleeps" your process. Without specialized hardware and software, you cannot achieve that kind of accuracy and resolution on a Windows machine.

William Winner · Answer 2 · 2011-01-05T11:01:00

Solution 4

purchase a ChronoLogic USB-inSync and consult their COM utilities.

Look at the documentation for a TimeSpan:

"The smallest unit of time is the tick, which is equal to 100 nanoseconds." (TimeSpan.Ticks[^])

That's the absolute best resolution of time that you are going to get without third-party hardware.

Posted 5-Jan-11 11:01am

William Winner

Updated 6-Jan-11 6:49am

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William Winner 6-Jan-11 12:43pm

WTF? purchasing third-party hardware is the only way that you will be able to measure nano-seconds. So, who has a problem with that answer?

Abhinav S · Answer 3 · 2010-12-30T20:12:00

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Its going to be tough to be accurate to nano seconds using a VB.Net timer.
As per this[^] article, the precision of the timer is only in milliseconds.

You might want to consider some API's to do this task.

Posted 30-Dec-10 20:12pm

Abhinav S

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alaayesh 31-Dec-10 2:59am

Hi,

the timer interval property takes also integers only and in milliseconds??

thanks

Sunasara Imdadhusen · Answer 4 · 2010-12-30T20:10:00

Solution 1

Hi
You can use

C#

//1 millisecond = 1 000 000 nanoseconds

System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(NanoSec);

Thanks,
Imdadhusen

Posted 30-Dec-10 20:10pm

Sunasara Imdadhusen

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alaayesh 31-Dec-10 2:57am

hi,

but this only takes milliseconds and as integer and i need to wait for 17nS??

thanks a lot

Dave Kreskowiak 5-Jan-11 16:57pm

Read the documentation on Thread.Sleep again. The argument it takes is measured in milliseconds, not nanoseconds. 1 millisecond = 1,000,000 nanseconds.

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