Dely loop in AVR

Amer:

Hello freinds.
Can anybody help me regarding how to write a assembly language delay loop (loop-in-loop method no use of internal timers) for AVR microcontroller and how to evaluate the time delay provided by a loop?
I have an example of such loop taken from EFY mag's Nov.05 issue. You can help me by explaining the calculations for that code. The code goes as follows:-

delay: clr r19
ldi r17,$ff
loop1: inc r17
brne loop1
inc r19
brne loop1
ret
Please include the step by step calculation procedure for the delay loop in your reply so that i will be able to write loops for desired delay.
Also does anybody has another type of such code to generate delay? please explain the evaluation of the same.
Thanks in advance...

Arun Dayal
May be my C code for PWM Servo controller routine help u! Just follow my web at http://www.dayalsoft.com . An ASM delay can be written similarly. The routine is not using any of the internal timers and produces a variable delay ranging from 800 to 1250 uS precisely.

sajiD
main:
ser r16
loop1:
dec r16
brnq loop1
ret
that is very ez ok

Prasanna.S
for calulation of delay loop you should know the clock cycle period(i.e1/frequency) once you get this if you are writing code in assembly language you have to check no. of cyles required for each instruction(but for avr most of the instruction are single cycle)
refer processor manual write a simlpe code with decrement in loops the value to be given is calculated
no to be decremented=sec required/(no of cycles /loop)*period in sec

to exact value you have to consider the jump instruction in the end of loop completion etc.