Datasheet
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7701F–AVR–10/12
Atmel ATtiny24/44/84 [Preliminary]
7.8 128kHz Internal Oscillator
The 128kHz internal oscillator is a low power oscillator providing a 128kHz clock. The fre-
quency is nominal at 3V and 25°C. This clock may be selected as the system clock by
programming the CKSEL fuses to "0100".
When this clock source is selected, start-up times are determined by the SUT Fuses as shown
in Table 7-9 on page 31.
7.9 System Clock Prescaler
The Atmel
®
ATtiny24/44/84 system clock can be divided by setting the Clock Prescaler Regis-
ter – 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
I/O
, clk
ADC
, clk
CPU
, and
clk
FLASH
are divided by a factor as shown in Table 7-10 on page 33.
7.9.1 Switching Time
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 either the
clock frequency corresponding to the previous setting or 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 written, it takes between T1 + T2 and T1 + 2*T2 before
the new clock frequency is active. In this interval, twp active clock edges are produced. Here,
T1 is the previous clock period, and T2 is the period corresponding to the new prescaler
setting.
Table 7-9. Start-up Times for the 128kHz Internal Oscillator
SUT1..0
Start-up Time from
Power-down and Power-save
Additional Delay from
Reset Recommended Usage
00 6CK 14CK BOD enabled
01 6CK 14CK + 4ms Fast rising power
10 6CK 14CK + 64ms Slowly rising power
11 Reserved