ATMEGA32(2008) View Datasheet(PDF) - Atmel Corporation

Part Name

Description

Manufacturer

ATMEGA32
(Rev.:2008)

8-bit Microcontroller with 32K Bytes In-System Programmable Flash

Atmel Corporation 

System Clock

and Clock

Options

Clock Systems

and their

Distribution

Figure 11 presents the principal clock systems in the AVR and their distribution. All of the clocks

need not be active at a given time. In order to reduce power consumption, the clocks to modules

not being used can be halted by using different sleep modes, as described in “Power Manage-

ment and Sleep Modes” on page 32. The clock systems are detailed Figure 11.

Figure 11. Clock Distribution

Asynchronous

Timer/Counter

General I/O

Modules

ADC

CPU Core

RAM

Flash and

EEPROM

clkI/O

clkASY

clkADC

AVR Clock

Control Unit

clkCPU

clkFLASH

Reset Logic

Watchdog Timer

Source Clock

Clock

Multiplexer

Watchdog Clock

Watchdog

Oscillator

Timer/Counter

Oscillator

External RC

Oscillator

External Clock

Crystal

Oscillator

Low-frequency

Crystal Oscillator

Calibrated RC

Oscillator

CPU Clock – clkCPU

The CPU clock is routed to parts of the system concerned with operation of the AVR core.

Examples of such modules are the General Purpose Register File, the Status Register and the

data memory holding the Stack Pointer. Halting the CPU clock inhibits the core from performing

general operations and calculations.

I/O Clock – clkI/O

The I/O clock is used by the majority of the I/O modules, like Timer/Counters, SPI, and USART.

The I/O clock is also used by the External Interrupt module, but note that some external inter-

rupts are detected by asynchronous logic, allowing such interrupts to be detected even if the I/O

clock is halted. Also note that address recognition in the TWI module is carried out asynchro-

nously when clkI/O is halted, enabling TWI address reception in all sleep modes.

Flash Clock – clkFLASH The Flash clock controls operation of the Flash interface. The Flash clock is usually active simul-

taneously with the CPU clock.

Asynchronous Timer

Clock – clkASY

The Asynchronous Timer clock allows the Asynchronous Timer/Counter to be clocked directly

from an external 32 kHz clock crystal. The dedicated clock domain allows using this

Timer/Counter as a real-time counter even when the device is in sleep mode.

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