8 Bit Timer ATmega8 have 3 different timers, of which the simplest one is TIMER0, with an 8 bit (0-255) resolution. The Atmega controllers provide hardware counters. Those counters are registers that ...

A timer is a simple counter! The input clock of microcontroller and operation of the timer is independent of the program execution.All the Atmel microcontrollers have Timers as an inbuilt peripheral.