Rainbow Electronics AT91CAP9S250A User Manual

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6264A–CAP–21-May-07

AT91CAP9S500A/AT91CAP9S250A

36.6.1.1

Clock Divider

Figure 36-4. Divided Clock Block Diagram

The Master Clock divider is determined by the 12-bit field DIV counter and comparator (so its
maximal value is 4095) in the Clock Mode Register SSC_CMR, allowing a Master Clock division
by up to 8190. The Divided Clock is provided to both the Receiver and Transmitter. When this
field is programmed to 0, the Clock Divider is not used and remains inactive.

When DIV is set to a value equal to or greater than 1, the Divided Clock has a frequency of Mas-
ter Clock divided by 2 times DIV. Each level of the Divided Clock has a duration of the Master
Clock multiplied by DIV. This ensures a 50% duty cycle for the Divided Clock regardless of
whether the DIV value is even or odd.

Figure 36-5. Divided Clock Generation

36.6.1.2

Transmitter Clock Management

The transmitter clock is generated from the receiver clock or the divider clock or an external
clock scanned on the TK I/O pad. The transmitter clock is selected by the CKS field in
SSC_TCMR (Transmit Clock Mode Register). Transmit Clock can be inverted independently by
the CKI bits in SSC_TCMR.

The transmitter can also drive the TK I/O pad continuously or be limited to the actual data trans-
fer. The clock output is configured by the SSC_TCMR register. The Transmit Clock Inversion
(CKI) bits have no effect on the clock outputs. Programming the TCMR register to select TK pin

MCK

Divided Clock

Clock Divider

/ 2

12-bit Counter

SSC_CMR

Master Clock

Divided Clock

DIV = 1

Master Clock

Divided Clock

DIV = 3

Divided Clock Frequency = MCK/2

Divided Clock Frequency = MCK/6

Table 36-2.

Maximum

Minimum

MCK / 2

MCK / 8190

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