Datasheet
Table Of Contents
- RP2040 Datasheet
- Colophon
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. System Description
- 2.1. Bus Fabric
- 2.2. Address Map
- 2.3. Processor subsystem
- 2.4. Cortex-M0+
- 2.4.1. Features
- 2.4.2. Functional Description
- 2.4.3. Programmer’s model
- 2.4.4. System control
- 2.4.5. NVIC
- 2.4.6. MPU
- 2.4.7. Debug
- 2.4.8. List of Registers
- 2.5. Memory
- 2.6. Boot Sequence
- 2.7. Bootrom
- 2.7.1. Bootrom Source
- 2.7.2. Processor Controlled Boot Sequence
- 2.7.3. Bootrom Contents
- 2.7.4. USB Mass Storage Interface
- 2.7.5. USB PICOBOOT Interface
- 2.8. Power Supplies
- 2.9. On-Chip Voltage Regulator
- 2.10. Power Control
- 2.11. Chip-Level Reset
- 2.12. Power-On State Machine
- 2.13. Subsystem Resets
- 2.14. Clocks
- 2.14.1. Overview
- 2.14.2. Clock sources
- 2.14.2.1. Ring Oscillator
- 2.14.2.1.1. Mitigating ROSC frequency variation due to process
- 2.14.2.1.2. Mitigating ROSC frequency variation due to voltage
- 2.14.2.1.3. Mitigating ROSC frequency variation due to temperature
- 2.14.2.1.4. Automatic mitigation of ROSC frequency variation due to PVT
- 2.14.2.1.5. Automatic overclocking using the ROSC
- 2.14.2.2. Crystal Oscillator
- 2.14.2.3. External Clocks
- 2.14.2.4. Relaxation Oscillators
- 2.14.2.5. PLLs
- 2.14.2.1. Ring Oscillator
- 2.14.3. Clock Generators
- 2.14.4. Frequency Counter
- 2.14.5. Resus
- 2.14.6. Programmer’s Model
- 2.14.7. List of registers
- 2.15. Crystal Oscillator (XOSC)
- 2.16. Ring Oscillator (ROSC)
- 2.17. PLL
- 2.18. GPIO
- 2.19. Sysinfo
- 2.20. Syscfg
- Chapter 3. PIO
- Chapter 4. Peripherals
- 4.1. USB
- 4.2. DMA
- 4.3. UART
- 4.4. I2C
- 4.4.1. Features
- 4.4.2. IP Configuration
- 4.4.3. I2C Overview
- 4.4.4. I2C Terminology
- 4.4.5. I2C Behaviour
- 4.4.6. I2C Protocols
- 4.4.7. Tx FIFO Management and START, STOP and RESTART Generation
- 4.4.8. Multiple Master Arbitration
- 4.4.9. Clock Synchronization
- 4.4.10. Operation Modes
- 4.4.11. Spike Suppression
- 4.4.12. Fast Mode Plus Operation
- 4.4.13. Bus Clear Feature
- 4.4.14. IC_CLK Frequency Configuration
- 4.4.15. DMA Controller Interface
- 4.4.16. List of Registers
- 4.5. SPI
- 4.5.1. Overview
- 4.5.2. Functional Description
- 4.5.3. Operation
- 4.5.3.1. Interface reset
- 4.5.3.2. Configuring the SSP
- 4.5.3.3. Enable PrimeCell SSP operation
- 4.5.3.4. Clock ratios
- 4.5.3.5. Programming the SSPCR0 Control Register
- 4.5.3.6. Programming the SSPCR1 Control Register
- 4.5.3.7. Frame format
- 4.5.3.8. Texas Instruments synchronous serial frame format
- 4.5.3.9. Motorola SPI frame format
- 4.5.3.10. Motorola SPI Format with SPO=0, SPH=0
- 4.5.3.11. Motorola SPI Format with SPO=0, SPH=1
- 4.5.3.12. Motorola SPI Format with SPO=1, SPH=0
- 4.5.3.13. Motorola SPI Format with SPO=1, SPH=1
- 4.5.3.14. National Semiconductor Microwire frame format
- 4.5.3.15. Examples of master and slave configurations
- 4.5.3.16. PrimeCell DMA interface
- 4.5.4. List of Registers
- 4.6. PWM
- 4.7. Timer
- 4.8. Watchdog
- 4.9. RTC
- 4.10. ADC and Temperature Sensor
- 4.11. SSI
- 4.11.1. Overview
- 4.11.2. Features
- 4.11.3. IP Modifications
- 4.11.4. Clock Ratios
- 4.11.5. Transmit and Receive FIFO Buffers
- 4.11.6. 32-Bit Frame Size Support
- 4.11.7. SSI Interrupts
- 4.11.8. Transfer Modes
- 4.11.9. Operation Modes
- 4.11.10. Partner Connection Interfaces
- 4.11.11. DMA Controller Interface
- 4.11.12. APB Interface
- 4.11.13. List of Registers
- Chapter 5. Electrical and Mechanical
- Appendix A: Register Field Types
- Appendix B: Errata
can be used to read the raw time without any latching.
WARNING
While it is technically possible to set the time by writing to the TIMEHW and TIMELW registers, programmers are
discouraged from doing this. This is because the timer value is expected to be monotonically increasing (with a 64-bit
wrap) by the Pico SDK which uses it for timeouts, elapsed time etc.
4.7.3. Alarms
The timer has 4 alarms, and outputs a separate interrupt for each alarm. The alarms match on the lower 32 bits of the 64-
bit counter which means they can be fired at a maximum of 2
32
microseconds into the future. This is equivalent to:
•
2
32
÷ 10
6
: ~4295 seconds
•
4295 ÷ 60: ~72 minutes
NOTE
This timer is expected to be used for short sleeps. If you want a longer alarm see Section 4.9.
To enable an alarm:
•
Enable the interrupt at the timer with a write to the appropriate alarm bit in INTE: i.e. (1 << 0) for ALARM0
•
Enable the appropriate timer interrupt at the processor (see Section 2.3.2)
•
Write the time you would like the interrupt to fire to ALARM0 (i.e. the current value in TIMERAWL plus your desired
alarm time in microseconds). Writing the time to the ALARM register sets the ARMED bit as a side effect.
Once the alarm has fired, the ARMED bit will be set to 0. To clear the latched interrupt, write a 1 to the appropriate bit in
INTR.
4.7.4. Programmer’s Model
NOTE
The Watchdog tick (see Section 4.8.2) must be running for the timer to start counting. The Pico SDK starts this tick at
the start of day.
4.7.4.1. Reading the time
NOTE
Time here refers to the number of microseconds since the timer was started, it is not a clock. For that - see Section
4.9.
The simplest form of reading the 64-bit time is to read TIMELR followed by TIMEHR. However, because RP2040 has 2
cores, it is unsafe to do this if the second core is executing code that can also access the timer. This is because reading
TIMELR latches the value in TIMEHR (i.e. stops it updating) until TIMEHR is read. If one core reads TIMELR followed by
another core reading TIMELR, the value in TIMEHR isn’t necessarily accurate. The example below shows the simplest
form of getting the 64-bit time.
RP2040 Datasheet
4.7. Timer 559