Datasheet
Table Of Contents
- Features
- 1. Ordering Information
- 2. Pinout/Block Diagram
- 3. Overview
- 4. Resources
- 5. Capacitive touch sensing
- 6. AVR CPU
- 7. Memories
- 8. Event System
- 9. System Clock and Clock options
- 9.1 Features
- 9.2 Overview
- 9.3 Clock Sources
- 9.3.1 32kHz Ultra Low Power Internal Oscillator
- 9.3.2 32.768kHz Calibrated Internal Oscillator
- 9.3.3 32.768kHz Crystal Oscillator
- 9.3.4 0.4 - 16MHz Crystal Oscillator
- 9.3.5 2MHz Run-time Calibrated Internal Oscillator
- 9.3.6 32MHz Run-time Calibrated Internal Oscillator
- 9.3.7 External Clock Sources
- 9.3.8 PLL with 1x-31x Multiplication Factor
- 10. Power Management and Sleep Modes
- 11. System Control and Reset
- 12. WDT – Watchdog Timer
- 13. Interrupts and Programmable Multilevel Interrupt Controller
- 14. I/O Ports
- 15. TC0/1 – 16-bit Timer/Counter Type 0 and 1
- 16. TC2 – Timer/Counter Type 2
- 17. AWeX – Advanced Waveform Extension
- 18. Hi-Res – High Resolution Extension
- 19. RTC – 16-bit Real-Time Counter
- 20. USB – Universal Serial Bus Interface
- 21. TWI – Two-Wire Interface
- 22. SPI – Serial Peripheral Interface
- 23. USART
- 24. IRCOM – IR Communication Module
- 25. CRC – Cyclic Redundancy Check Generator
- 26. ADC – 12-bit Analog to Digital Converter
- 27. AC – Analog Comparator
- 28. Programming and Debugging
- 29. Pinout and Pin Functions
- 30. Peripheral Module Address Map
- 31. Instruction Set Summary
- 32. Packaging information
- 33. Electrical Characteristics TBD
- 34. Typical Characteristics TBD
- 35. Errata
- 36. Datasheet Revision History
- Table of Contents
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8493A–AVR–02/12
XMEGA C4
9. System Clock and Clock options
9.1 Features
• Fast start-up time
• Safe run-time clock switching
• Internal oscillators:
– 32MHz run-time calibrated and tuneable oscillator
– 2MHz run-time calibrated oscillator
– 32.768kHz calibrated oscillator
– 32kHz ultra low power (ULP) oscillator with 1kHz output
• External clock options
– 0.4MHz - 16MHz crystal oscillator
– 32.768kHz crystal oscillator
– External clock
• PLL with 20MHz - 128MHz output frequency
– Internal and external clock options and 1x to 31x multiplication
– Lock detector
• Clock prescalers with 1x to 2048x division
• Fast peripheral clocks running at two and four times the CPU clock
• Automatic run-time calibration of internal oscillators
• External oscillator and PLL lock failure detection with optional non-maskable interrupt
9.2 Overview
Atmel AVR XMEGA C4 devices have a flexible clock system supporting a large number of clock
sources. It incorporates both accurate internal oscillators and external crystal oscillator and res-
onator support. A high-frequency phase locked loop (PLL) and clock prescalers can be used to
generate a wide range of clock frequencies. A calibration feature (DFLL) is available, and can be
used for automatic run-time calibration of the internal oscillators to remove frequency drift over
voltage and temperature. An oscillator failure monitor can be enabled to issue a non-maskable
interrupt and switch to the internal oscillator if the external oscillator or PLL fails.
When a reset occurs, all clock sources except the 32kHz ultra low power oscillator are disabled.
After reset, the device will always start up running from the 2MHz internal oscillator. During nor-
mal operation, the system clock source and prescalers can be changed from software at any
time.
Figure 9-1 on page 19 presents the principal clock system. Not all of the clocks need to be active
at a given time. The clocks for the CPU and peripherals can be stopped using sleep modes and
power reduction registers, as described in ”Power Management and Sleep Modes” on page 21.