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Hi,

I'm new to Arduino and I'm little bit confused about start up initialization. Is there any information on how DUE is initializated? Especially I'm wondering if it starts at 84MHz or I have to set up PLL myself?

I think arduino_due_x/variant.cpp is file where some initialization is done, but then it use SystemInit(), but I'm not able to find this function quickly.

Thanks for any suggestion.

BR,
Krzysiek

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I don't know if it is the exact file used, but look at hardware/arduino/sam/system/CMSIS/Device/ATMEL/sam3xa/source/system_sam3xa.c - there looks like there is some clock setting code in there.

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There's a call to init() in main()

C:\arduino-1.5\hardware\arduino\sam\cores\arduino\main.cpp

It's bound to be in there even if you have to follow the train of calls for a while. But for the life of me I can't find where init() is.

It probably winds up at SystemInit() in the file Stimmer mentioned, but it would be nice to know.

EDIT:
There's a main() in this file that calls SystemInIt() directly

C:\arduino-1.5\hardware\arduino\sam\system\CMSIS\Examples\cmsis_example\main.c

But the first main() I pointed to seem to be the Arduino entry point.

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Rob

[Reply #3 on:]

I'd add that from my experiments with timers and VGA, the clock is definitely running at 84MHz by the time setup is called.

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Many thanks for replay.

It looks like 'hardware/arduino/sam/cores/arduino' is an Arduino part with the entry point main.cpp. Then, I think initialization of MCU is done in init() function from 'hardware/arduino/sam/variants/arduino_due_x/variant.cpp'.

The init() uses SystemInit() function, it's probably from 'hardware/arduino/sam/system/CMSIS/Device/ATMEL/sam3xa/source/system_sam3xa.c'.

It seems that this CMSIS folder contains some standard libraries provided by ARM: http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-m/cortex-microcontroller-software-interface-standard.php.

'hardware/arduino/sam/system/libsam/' is also interesting, it contains functions to use some pheripherals, like RTC, SPI or Watchdog.

Regards,
Krzysiek

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as you already discovered, the Reset_Handler function is the entry point.

https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/blob/ide-1.5.x/hardware/arduino/sam/system/CMSIS/Device/ATMEL/sam3xa/source/gcc/startup_sam3xa.c#L244

I also patched the file above:

https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/commit/d994e48c5565a0c7aea54384a1b15a19623fe209

the reason is that __libc_init_array() initializes all static c++ objects (by calling their constructor), and some libraries
(for instance LiquidCrystal) uses delay() inside constructors, and delay() didnt work (hangs the CPU) if the hardware is not
initalized before.

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