Rainbow Electronics ATmega64M1 - Manual (Page 132)

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ATmega16M1/32M1/64M1
Enabling and disabling of the clock input must be done when Tn/T0 has been stable for at least
one system clock cycle, otherwise it is a risk that a false Timer/Counter clock pulse is generated.
Each half period of the external clock applied must be longer than one system clock cycle to
ensure correct sampling. The external clock must be guaranteed to have less than half the sys-
tem clock frequency (f
ExtClk
< f
clk_I/O
/2) given a 50/50% duty cycle. Since the edge detector uses
sampling, the maximum frequency of an external clock it can detect is half the sampling fre-
quency (Nyquist sampling theorem). However, due to variation of the system clock frequency
and duty cycle caused by Oscillator source (crystal, resonator, and capacitors) tolerances, it is
recommended that maximum frequency of an external clock source is less than f
clk_I/O
/2.5.
An external clock source can not be prescaled.
Figure 17-2. Prescaler for Timer/Counter0 and Timer/Counter1 (1)
Note: 1. The synchronization logic on the input pins ( Tn) is shown in Figure 17-1 .
PSRSYNC
Clear
clk
T1
clk
T0
T1
T0
clk
I/O
Synchronization
Synchronization