ATMEGA48V_11 ATMEL [ATMEL Corporation], ATMEGA48V_11 Datasheet - Page 36

• Manufacturer Part Number: ATMEGA48V_11
• Description: 8-bit Atmel Microcontroller with 4/8/16K Bytes In-System Programmable Flash
• Manufacturer: ATMEL [ATMEL Corporation]

9.10
9.11
2545T–AVR–05/11
Timer/counter oscillator
System clock prescaler
oscillator, can be selected when the clock is output on CLKO. If the System Clock Prescaler is
used, it is the divided system clock that is output.
The device can operate its Timer/Counter2 from an external 32.768kHz watch crystal or a exter-
nal clock source. The Timer/Counter Oscillator Pins (TOSC1 and TOSC2) are shared with
XTAL1 and XTAL2. This means that the Timer/Counter Oscillator can only be used when an
internal RC Oscillator is selected as system clock source. See
connection.
Applying an external clock source to TOSC1 requires EXTCLK in the ASSR Register written to
logic one. See
on selecting external clock as input instead of a 32kHz crystal.
The Atmel ATmega48/88/168 has a system clock prescaler, and the system clock can be
divided by setting the
to decrease the system clock frequency and the power consumption when the requirement for
processing power is low. This can be used with all clock source options, and it will affect the
clock frequency of the CPU and all synchronous peripherals. clk
are divided by a factor as shown in
When switching between prescaler settings, the System Clock Prescaler ensures that no
glitches occurs in the clock system. It also ensures that no intermediate frequency is higher than
neither the clock frequency corresponding to the previous setting, nor the clock frequency corre-
sponding to the new setting. The ripple counter that implements the prescaler runs at the
frequency of the undivided clock, which may be faster than the CPU's clock frequency. Hence, it
is not possible to determine the state of the prescaler - even if it were readable, and the exact
time it takes to switch from one clock division to the other cannot be exactly predicted. From the
time the CLKPS values are written, it takes between T1 + T2 and T1 + 2 × T2 before the new
clock frequency is active. In this interval, two active clock edges are produced. Here, T1 is the
previous clock period, and T2 is the period corresponding to the new prescaler setting.
To avoid unintentional changes of clock frequency, a special write procedure must befollowed to
change the CLKPS bits:
1. Write the Clock Prescaler Change Enable (CLKPCE) bit to one and all other bits in
2. Within four cycles, write the desired value to CLKPS while writing a zero to CLKPCE.
Interrupts must be disabled when changing prescaler setting to make sure the write procedure is
not interrupted.
CLKPR to zero.
“Asynchronous operation of Timer/Counter2” on page 151
“CLKPR – Clock prescale register” on page
Table 9-14 on page
38.
ATmega48/88/168
Figure 9-2 on page 30
I/O
37. This feature can be used
, clk
ADC
for further description
, clk
CPU
, and clk
for crystal
FLASH
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