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Table 23-1. Equations for Calculating Baud Rate Register Setting
Operating Mode Equation for Calculating Baud
Rate
(1)
Equation for Calculating UBRR
Value
Asynchronous Normal
mode (U2X = 0)
BAUD =
OSC
16
 + 1
 =
OSC
16BAUD
1
Asynchronous Double
Speed mode (U2X = 1)
BAUD =
OSC
8
 + 1
 =
OSC
8BAUD
1
Synchronous Master mode
BAUD =
OSC
2
+1
 =
OSC
2BAUD
1
Note:  1. The baud rate is defined to be the transfer rate in bit per second (bps).
BAUD Baud rate (in bits per second, bps).
f
OSC
System oscillator clock frequency.
UBRR Contents of the UBRRH and UBRRL Registers, (0-4095).
Some examples of UBRR values for some system clock frequencies are found in Table 23-9.
23.3.2. Double Speed Operation (U2X)
The transfer rate can be doubled by setting the U2X bit in UCSRA. Setting this bit only has effect for the
asynchronous operation. Set this bit to zero when using synchronous operation.
Setting this bit will reduce the divisor of the baud rate divider from 16 to 8, effectively doubling the transfer
rate for asynchronous communication. Note however that the Receiver will in this case only use half the
number of samples (reduced from 16 to 8) for data sampling and clock recovery, and therefore a more
accurate baud rate setting and system clock are required when this mode is used.
For the Transmitter, there are no downsides.
23.3.3. External Clock
External clocking is used by the synchronous slave modes of operation. The description in this section
refers to Figure 23-2.
External clock input from the XCK pin is sampled by a synchronization register to minimize the chance of
meta-stability. The output from the synchronization register must then pass through an edge detector
before it can be used by the Transmitter and Receiver. This process introduces a two CPU clock period
delay and therefore the maximum external XCK clock frequency is limited by the following equation:
XCK
<
OSC
4
The value of f
osc
depends on the stability of the system clock source. It is therefore recommended to add
some margin to avoid possible loss of data due to frequency variations.
23.3.4. Synchronous Clock Operation
When Synchronous mode is used (UMSEL = 1), the XCK pin will be used as either clock input (Slave) or
clock output (Master). The dependency between the clock edges and data sampling or data change is the
same. The basic principle is that data input (on RxD) is sampled at the opposite XCK clock edge of the
edge the data output (TxD) is changed.
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