https://github.com/felias-fogg/osccalTune

Arduino sketch for calibrating the internal oscillator
https://github.com/felias-fogg/osccalTune

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Arduino sketch for calibrating the internal oscillator

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/felias-fogg/osccalTune
• Owner: felias-fogg
• Created: 2021-01-21T09:38:50.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-11-13T08:58:36.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-07T18:27:29.590Z (5 months ago)
• Language: C++
• Size: 6.84 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: readme.md

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# Tuning OSCCAL

When you run an AVR MCU without a crystal or resonator, you have to use its own internal oscillator. This is factory calibrated and is promised to be within 10% accuracy. It turns out that the accuracy is usually close to 2-3%. For a given voltage and temperature, you can even do better than that and calibrate to 1% (for a given voltage and temperature).

With this sketch, you can tune the OSCCAL value that controls the frequency of the internal oscillator. You need to burn the fuse that connects the MCU clock to one of the ports (remember to change this after you have run the sketch!) and connect that port to a frequency meter. Often this is provided in multi meters or in signal generators. Perhaps, you can use a DSO or logic analyzer. Without any measurement device, you have to use alternative ways to calibrate the internal oscillator, though, e.g., as described [here](http://ernstc.dk/arduino/tinytuner.html).

Read the comments in the top of the sketch, which describe what to do. The basic idea is that you connect the ISP pins to buttons and to the RX pin of a serial port of your computer. If you use an ATmega that has a serial connection to your computer anyways, you can use this connection instead to change the OSCCAL value (define USE_SERIAL).  If you do not change the sketch, the best OSCCAL value will be stored in EEPROM at E2END. Additionally, the byte at E2END-1 will be cleared. 

The main point is  that you can use the value stored in EEPROM later in your particular application sketch. One important prerequisite for this is, however, that you burn the EEPROM preservation fuse! Otherwise the values stored into EEPROM will always be deleted when a new sketch is uploaded to flash memory. Instead of storing the value in EEPROM, you can, of course, write the value down and insert it as a constant in your application sketch.

Note that by now, there is a much easier way to calibrate your AVR MCU: [avrCalibrate](https://github.com/felias-fogg/avrCalibrate).