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8018N–AVR–08/09

ATmega169P

8.8

Timer/Counter Oscillator

ATmega169P uses the same crystal oscillator for Low-frequency Oscillator and Timer/Counter

Oscillator. See ”Low-frequency Crystal Oscillator” on page 34 for details on the oscillator and

crystal requirements.

ATmega169P share the Timer/Counter Oscillator Pins (TOSC1 and TOSC2) with XTAL1 and

XTAL2. When using the Timer/Counter Oscillator, the system clock needs to be four times the

oscillator frequency. Due to this and the pin sharing, the Timer/Counter Oscillator can only be

used when the Calibrated Internal RC Oscillator is selected as system clock source.

Applying an external clock source to TOSC1 can be done if EXTCLK in the ASSR Register is

written to logic one. See ”Asynchronous operation of the Timer/Counter” on page 150 for further

description on selecting external clock as input instead of a 32.768 kHz watch crystal.

8.9

Clock Output Buffer

When the CKOUT Fuse is programmed, the system Clock will be output on CLKO. This mode is

suitable when chip clock is used to drive other circuits on the system. The clock will be output

also during reset and the normal operation of I/O pin will be overridden when the fuse is pro-

grammed. Any clock source, including internal RC Oscillator, can be selected when CLKO

serves as clock output. If the System Clock Prescaler is used, it is the divided system clock that

is output when the CKOUT Fuse is programmed.

8.10

System Clock Prescaler

The ATmega169P system clock can be divided by setting the ”CLKPR – Clock Prescale Regis-

ter” on page 38. This feature can be used to decrease the system clock frequency and 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

I/O, clkADC, clkCPU, and clkFLASH are divided by a factor as shown in Table 8-12.

When switching between prescaler settings, the System Clock Prescaler ensures that no

glitches occur in the clock system and that no intermediate frequency is higher than neither the

clock frequency corresponding to the previous setting, nor the clock frequency corresponding 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 another cannot be exactly predicted. From the time the CLKPS values are writ-

ten, it takes between T1 + T2 and T1 + 2*T2 before the new clock frequency is active. In this

interval, 2 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 be followed

to change the CLKPS bits:

Write the Clock Prescaler Change Enable (CLKPCE) bit to one and all other bits in

CLKPR to zero.

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.

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