AT90PWM216-16SE ATMEL [ATMEL Corporation], AT90PWM216-16SE Datasheet - Page 37

• Manufacturer Part Number: AT90PWM216-16SE
• Description: 8-bit Microcontroller with 16K Bytes In-System Programmable flash
• Manufacturer: ATMEL [ATMEL Corporation]

7.10
7.10.1
7710D–AVR–08/09
System Clock Prescaler
Clock Prescaler Register – CLKPR
serves as clock output. If the System Clock Prescaler is used, it is the divided system clock that
is output (CKOUT Fuse programmed).
The AT90PWM216/316 system clock can be divided by setting the Clock Prescale Register –
CLKPR. This feature can be used to decrease 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, 2 active clock edges are produced. Here, T1 is the pre-
vious 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:
Interrupts must be disabled when changing prescaler setting to make sure the write procedure is
not interrupted.
• Bit 7 – CLKPCE: Clock Prescaler Change Enable
The CLKPCE bit must be written to logic one to enable change of the CLKPS bits. The CLKPCE
bit is only updated when the other bits in CLKPR are simultaniosly written to zero. CLKPCE is
cleared by hardware four cycles after it is written or when CLKPS bits are written. Rewriting the
CLKPCE bit within this time-out period does neither extend the time-out period, nor clear the
CLKPCE bit.
• Bits 3..0 – CLKPS3..0: Clock Prescaler Select Bits 3 - 0
These bits define the division factor between the selected clock source and the internal system
clock. These bits can be written run-time to vary the clock frequency to suit the application
requirements. As the divider divides the master clock input to the MCU, the speed of all synchro-
nous peripherals is reduced when a division factor is used. The division factors are given in
Table
Bit
Read/Write
Initial Value
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.
CLKPR to zero.
7-10.
CLKPCE
R/W
7
0
R
6
0
–
Table
R
5
–
0
7-10.
R
4
–
0
CLKPS3
R/W
3
CLKPS2
See Bit Description
AT90PWM216/316
R/W
2
I/O
, clk
CLKPS1
R/W
ADC
1
, clk
CLKPS0
CPU
R/W
0
, and clk
CLKPR
FLASH
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