Running a atmega16L faster than specified
2005-11-06 by Daniel Adolfsson
Hello, I have been lurking here in the shadows absorbing as much knowledge as I can, learning from other peoples questions and answers, but I have come up with a question i cant remember anyone asking before. I have a little project, I have been working on in my spare time, which I initially planned to power with 3v and thus bought a mega16L. It seems now that a 3V supply creates more problems than it solves (in my case) and have switched to 5V. So here is my question, could i run the mega 16L (spec 8 MHz) at 16 MHz if i supply it 5 V? or should i stick to 8 MHz even though I need the extra cycles. Thank you in advance, this list is very educating and i hope for the good of mankind :-) that it's being archived at yahoo, it would be a waste to let so much knowledge end up in /dev/nul - Daniel, financially challenged EE student