ATMEGA161-8PC View Datasheet(PDF) - Atmel Corporation
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ATMEGA161-8PC
Atmel Corporation
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Memory Access Times and Instruction Execution Timing
This section describes the general access timing concepts for instruction execution and internal memory access.
The AVR CPU is driven by the System Clock Ø, directly generated from the external clock crystal for the chip. No internal
clock division is used.
Figure 21 shows the parallel instruction fetches and instruction executions enabled by the Harvard architecture and the
fast-access register file concept. This is the basic pipelining concept to obtain up to 1 MIPS per MHz with the corresponding
unique results for functions per cost, functions per clocks, and functions per power-unit.
Figure 21. The Parallel Instruction Fetches and Instruction Executions
T1
T2
T3
T4
System Clock Ø
1st Instruction Fetch
1st Instruction Execute
2nd Instruction Fetch
2nd Instruction Execute
3rd Instruction Fetch
3rd Instruction Execute
4th Instruction Fetch
Figure 22 shows the internal timing concept for the register file. In a single clock cycle an ALU operation using two register
operands is executed, and the result is stored back to the destination register.
Figure 22. Single Cycle ALU Operation
T1
T2
T3
T4
System Clock Ø
Total Execution Time
Register Operands Fetch
ALU Operation Execute
Result Write Back
The internal data SRAM access is performed in two System Clock cycles as described in Figure 23.
Figure 23. On-chip Data SRAM Access Cycles
T1
T2
T3
T4
System Clock Ø
Address
Data
WR
Data
RD
Prev. Address
Address
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ATmega161(L)
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