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Use (CLK_PER / 2) instead of CLKTCA for millis / micros clock
This PR switches the TCB clock select from TCA (which is, by default, CPU clock / 64) to the CPU clock / 2. Then it maintains a counter in the ISR to only increment the micros / millis count every 32 interrupts, because by switching the clock source, we get interrupts 32x more frequently.
The whole reason for this is that without this the millis clock depends on TCA0, which is supposed to drive PWM pins. Without this, users cannot increase the frequency of the PWM without increasing the speed at which millis counts.
Say a user wants to drive the PWM with 4x the default frequency. They set TCA0 to be CPU clock / 16, up from CPU clock / 64, and the PWM will work at 4x the frequency. One problem: millis() ticks 4x faster, and delay() delays for 4x shorter time. This PR corrects this behaviour.
This PR has been written to add as little overhead as possible to the timer ISR, which is important as this is now called 32x as often.
I have tested this using the following code and an oscilloscope:
void setup() {
// Increase TCA0 speed to F_CPU
TCA0.SINGLE.CTRLA = TCA_SINGLE_CLKSEL_DIV1_gc | TCA_SINGLE_ENABLE_bm;
// Timing test - Drive a pin high for one second
pinMode(4, OUTPUT);
digitalWrite(4, HIGH);
delay(1000);
digitalWrite(4, LOW);
}
void loop() {}
This is the output:
So I am confident that this maintains correct timing. This test, without this patch, produces the following output:
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Just curious - does "CPU clock / 2" mean that the ISR would be called at 8Mhz on a 16Mhz processor? Hope not, otherwise the ISR would only have two asm instructions before the next interrupt is generated...
another idea - it seems that MegaCoreX has a different implementation, see https://github.com/MCUdude/MegaCoreX/blob/master/megaavr/cores/coreX-corefiles/wiring.c. Their ISR is very small, several clock freqs are supported, and other fancy stuff.
https://github.com/MCUdude/MegaCoreX/commit/298601ba1c0cf83d1ee26130d7afed0f27a51b9d
Does MegaCoreX have the problem described by this PR, i.e. changing the PWM freq will make millis() and friends run faster/slower? Would it be an option to adopt wiring.c from MegaCoreX?