Arduino Due Clock output

Hardware Arduino Due
#1

Does anybody know how to generate a clock signal on an digital pin of an Arduino Due?
like a CPU clock. I am trying to communicate to a OV3640 but i have to give it a 24 MHz clock signal. I was wondering if there was a way to generate that using the CPU clock of the Due.

#2

dishimwe:
Does anybody know how to generate a clock signal on an digital pin of an Arduino Due?
like a CPU clock. I am trying to communicate to a OV3640 but i have to give it a 24 MHz clock signal. I was wondering if there was a way to generate that using the CPU clock of the Due.

I don't think that it is possible using the CPU clock, but you could maybe use a pwm signal. Or a timer interrupt.

#3

i tried using the PWM signal but i could not adjust the frequency. Do you know how to change it?

#4

dishimwe:
i tried using the PWM signal but i could not adjust the frequency. Do you know how to change it?

I don't exactly know, but you should definitely take a look at this: http://asf.atmel.com/docs/latest/sam3x/html/group__sam__drivers__pwm__group.html

#5

Gericom:
I don't exactly know, but you should definitely take a look at this: http://asf.atmel.com/docs/latest/sam3x/html/group__sam__drivers__pwm__group.html

Thanks a lot! I am going to try that.

#6

I finally found out that this:

Gericom:
I don't exactly know, but you should definitely take a look at this: http://asf.atmel.com/docs/latest/sam3x/html/group__sam__drivers__pwm__group.html

cannot work for me because am using the Arduino IDE. Do you know of anything else? Everything i tried cannot go above 150kHz frequency.

#7

The SAM processor has 3 programmable clock pins but the function is not supported by Arduino.

From the data sheet

The PMC controls 3 signals to be output on external pins, PCKx. Each signal can be independently
programmed via the Programmable Clock Registers (PMC_PCKx).
PCKx can be independently selected between the Slow Clock (SLCK), the Main Clock
(MAINCK), the PLLA Clock (PLLACK), UTMI PLL Clock (UPLLCK/2) and the Master Clock
(MCK) by writing the CSS field in PMC_PCKx. Each output signal can also be divided by a
power of 2 between 1 and 64 by writing the PRES (Prescaler) field in PMC_PCKx.

I've not used them though so can't advise on that. They may not even be broken out on the Due.

Rob

#8

Any example code of setting that up?

#9

Sorry, I've not worked with this yet.

Rob

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