![\[ \texttt{BSCALE} = \left\lceil \log_2 \left( \frac{f_\textit{\scriptsize per}}{16 f_\textit{\scriptsize baud}} - 1 \right) \right\rceil \] \[ \texttt{BSEL} = 2^\texttt{\scriptsize -BSCALE} \left( \frac{f_\textit{\scriptsize per}}{16 f_\textit{\scriptsize baud}} - 1 \right) \]](Images/XMEGABaud.png)
Recently (as of 2015) I've taken an interest in Atmel's XMEGA series AVR microcontrollers. However, their documentation seems to have declined a bit, compared to the verbose and easy reading ATmega series. I appreciate the grouping peripherals by IO bank, but I keep looking and looking and nowhere do they spell out what precisely the registers are named. They might give three different possible names—the section title, the table heading, the bit names—and yet the actual names (found deep within the nested io.h files), is still something else... I have found a number of inconsistencies on given devices, too (registers that are named that don't exist, or omitted ones that do exist).
This specific calculator concerns the USART peripherals: as near as I can tell, this is what they meant to write, but somehow never got around to doing?
So, here's a set of closed-form equations, which can be applied immediately; a JavaScript calculator that uses the equations; and the necessary code examples to use them (C and ASM), assuming you're using the official header files.
Enter new numbers and see the remaining output values change:
These formulas are related to the equations shown on Page 204, rearranged to solve for the register values.