2.9.1.7 - Frequency Output (Mode 7)

Outputs a square wave at a frequency determined by TimerClockBase/TimerClockDivisor divided by 2*Timer#Value. The Value passed should be between 0-255, where 0 is a divisor of 256. By changing the clock configuration and timer value, a wide range of frequencies can be output, as shown in the following table:

Note that the clocks above apply to the U3 hardware revision 1.21. With hardware revision 1.20 all clocks are half of those values.

The frequency output has a -3 dB frequency of about 10 MHz on the FIO lines. Accordingly, at high frequencies the output waveform will get less square and the amplitude will decrease.

The output does not necessarily start instantly, but rather waits for the internal clock to roll. For example, if the output frequency is 100 Hz, that means the period is 10 milliseconds, and thus after the command is received by the device it could be anywhere from 0 to 10 milliseconds before the start of the frequency output.