Lpc2000

At 10:23 PM 11/17/04 +0000, you wrote:
>Why is the oscillator frequency needed in the first place? Isn't the
>interface baud rate detected by the bootloader?

Timing, They need to know the speed of the clock so they can determine the 
timing for programming the flash.  IE 6 counts at 20Mhz and 12 counts at 
10MHz in some internal timing loop.

The information has to come from somewhere.  The Analog Devices chips don't 
need it (in a similar case) since they only allow a single Xtal frequency.

Robert

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