also where should I put the reset FGV? outside the state machine? or the previous case within the same state machine?
You do it in your state machine wherever you need the timer to be reset.
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Right. You want to reset once and then continually read. fF you reset every time you read, you will always be measuring (TimeNow-TimeNow) as your elapsed time (=0).
