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Some chips work above their rated max frequency, some don't. I had a batch of AT90USB1287 chips which are only supposed to work up to 8MHz at 3.3V, about 95% of them would run fine at 16Mhz. I found this out by accident, I hadn't read about the 8MHz limitation in the datasheet...

If this is a one-off device and you have a chip that runs at 16Mhz, you'll be fine. I would not do it for production though as sooner or later you will get some that don't work.

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Tim Mitchell



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