So I was wondering, all the the peripherals on the SAm7A3 are configured to 48 MHz via the handy dandy Cstartup_SAM7.c init file. I was wondering, does this actually configure the main clock to run at 48 MHz, or it is still running at the Oscillator crystal speed? I'm wondering because my system seems to be running a lot more sluggish than it should be. For instance, I have an LCD display that should take approximately 2.5 mS to update (I have a lot of no ops in there to get the timing to work out properly), but it instead takes approximately 350 mS. This is remarkably similar to if the clock speed was running at 3.6 MHz (the oscillator crystal) and not at the boosted 48 MHz. I was wondering if anyone else noticed the system running slow than it should be. Note: I did turn on the processor clock with pPMC->PMC_SCER |= AT91C_PMC_PCK;
Viva la Oscilloscope and GDB Insight. It turns out that when one of the programmers called a function to write to the display, he thought the function updated only one line, but it updated the whole thing, so we were running the LCD code about 6 times more than we thought we were. Hopefully this will improve over all system performance. Access time went from 350 mS to around 20 mS. I can live with that much easier :)
So going along with this whole processor speed thread I started... is there any way that I can find out the actual speed of the processor? I know I can pipe out the slow clock, the PLL and the main clock. The slow clock is around 32k, the PLL is just a voltage that according to ye old local EE guy will change between runs as it adjusts itself and may be high, or low, so I can't really use that and the main clock is just the external oscillator that I'm using (in this case, 3.6 MHz). Is there anything that I can probe, or set up internally that will tell me how fast the clock is going? I could just set up a for loop of No Ops or something, but I was hoping for something a little more accurate. Any ideas?
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