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Prop on 24MHz crystal and Serial Comm

nicolad76nicolad76 Posts: 164
edited 2010-04-27 18:36 in Propeller 1
Since I did not know what to do I decided to end the life of an old (very old) Ipod I had. I opened it and found some interesting pieces...
besides the micro hard drive which I will never be able to use with the Prop I found two interesting SMD quartz. 24 MHz I believe (there is a 24.000 printed on top of it).
I could not resist and I plug one of theme to my prop. I set PPLx4 which means the Prop should have run at 24x4=96 MHz....more or less...
The Prop run perfectly but the serial connection at 115200 stopped working. I used fullduplex. I put back 5MHz and PPLx16 and serial connection started working again.
I am wondering...since I am not an expert...in which way is the connection speed dependant on the crystal?
Well....I understand that if the Prop runs on few MHz I cannot reach high transmission speed...but if I can use 115200 at 5MHz x PPL16, then higher speed should still work...were am I wrong?
Grazie!!!!
Nicola

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  • MagIO2MagIO2 Posts: 2,243
    edited 2010-04-27 18:18
    The spec says that the input of the PLL can at max. be 10MHz. Of course there is a little room for overclocking, but definitely not for 2.4 times overclocking.

    The PLL output stages 8x and 16x are not switched off and as they are driven out of specs the will produce .... ???
  • nicolad76nicolad76 Posts: 164
    edited 2010-04-27 18:36
    I understand....I have read the specs almost 2 years ago [noparse]:)[/noparse] I should go back to them [noparse]:)[/noparse]
    Thanks!!!!
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