Questions with AVR UART tutorial

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I’ve been reading the AVR tutorial:http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/tutori … als_id=105

My questions are: what does F_CPU = 8000000 means in Makefile? If I want to run my uC at the default 1Mhz and TX/RX at 2400bps, should I change the define to:

#define FOSC 1000000

#define BAUD 2400

and then also change F_CPU = 1000000 ?

In the comments under this tutorial, people say they have to use 16Mhz external crystal to make it work. But I really want to use the 1Mhz default internal oscillator to make the UART work.

Thank you so much!

Baixue

2

I mean should I change the following in *.c:

#define FOSC 1000000

#define BAUD 2400

and change the following in Makefile:

F_CPU = 1000000

By the way, the sample code define FOSC as 16Mhz in *.c and define F_CPU = 1000000 in Makefile, that really confuse me

Baixue

3

I think you’re OK.

Download “Avrcalc” (avrfreaks.net)

it calculates an acceptably small baud rate error.

The UBR would be set to 0x0019; this is calculated based on the crystal frequency.

If you use the internal oscillator, rather than a crystal, you’ll get larger errors in the baud rate. Normally these errors are important as you use 19,200 and up.

4

Thank you so much for the help!! After I changed all those above, the UART wroks!!! Thank you again!

Cheers,

Baixue