Functional description
L6470
6.8.1
6.8.2
Internal oscillator
In this mode the internal oscillator is activated and OSCIN is unused. If the OSCOUT clock
source is enabled, the OSCOUT pin provides a 2, 4, 8 or 16-MHz clock signal (according to
OSC_SEL value); it is otherwise unused (see Figure 11).
External clock source
Two types of external clock source can be selected: crystal/ceramic resonator or direct clock
source. Four programmable clock frequencies are available for each external clock source:
8, 16, 24 and 32 MHz.
When an external crystal/resonator is selected, the OSCIN and OSCOUT pins are used to
drive the crystal/resonator (see Figure 11). The crystal/resonator and load capacitors (CL)
must be placed as close as possible to the pins. Refer to Table 8 for the choice of load
capacitor values according to the external oscillator frequency.
Table 8. CL values according to external oscillator frequency
Crystal/resonator freq. (1)
CL (2)
8 MHz
16 MHz
24 MHz
32 MHz
25 pF (ESRmax = 80 )
18 pF (ESRmax = 50 )
15 pF (ESRmax = 40 )
10 pF (ESRmax = 40 )
1. First harmonic resonance frequency.
2. Lower ESR value allows the driving of greater load capacitors.
If a direct clock source is used, it must be connected to the OSCIN pin and the OSCOUT pin
supplies the inverted OSCIN signal (see Figure 11).
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