High Accuracy Timer

High-resolution performance counter
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Updated 11 Jul 2015

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Uses the high-resolution performance counter to get the time which exceeds one microsecond accuracy.
time = hat;
% do some calculations
diff = hat - time;

Cite As

Ivo Houtzager (2026). High Accuracy Timer (https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/16534-high-accuracy-timer), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

MATLAB Release Compatibility
Created with R2012b
Compatible with any release
Platform Compatibility
Windows macOS Linux
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Acknowledgements

Inspired: Simulink Block for Real Time Execution

Version Published Release Notes
1.2.0.0

more thread safe
Added Linux support using the POSIX high-resolution performance counter

1.0.0.0