Pauses the program for the amount of time (in microseconds) specified as parameter. There are a thousand microseconds in a millisecond, and a million microseconds in a second.
Currently, the largest value that will produce an accurate delay is 16383. This could change in future Arduino releases. For delays longer than a few thousand microseconds, you should use delay() instead.
Syntax
delayMicroseconds(us)
Parameters
us: the number of microseconds to pause (unsigned int)
Returns
Nothing
Example Code
The code configures pin number 8 to work as an output pin. It sends a train of pulses of approximately 100 microseconds period. The approximation is due to execution of the other instructions in the code.
int outPin = 8; // digital pin 8
void setup()
{
pinMode(outPin, OUTPUT); // sets the digital pin as output
}
void loop()
{
digitalWrite(outPin, HIGH); // sets the pin on
delayMicroseconds(50); // pauses for 50 microseconds
digitalWrite(outPin, LOW); // sets the pin off
delayMicroseconds(50); // pauses for 50 microseconds
}
Notes and Warnings
This function works very accurately in the range 3 microseconds and up. We cannot assure that delayMicroseconds will perform precisely for smaller delay-times.
As of Arduino 0018, delayMicroseconds() no longer disables interrupts.
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