Atmel AVR ATtiny15L Owner's manual

Features

•High-performance, Low-power AVR®8-bit Microcontroller

•Advanced RISC Architecture

– 90 Powerful Instructions – Most Single-clock Cycle Execution

– 32 x 8 General-purpose Working Registers

– Fully Static Operation

•Nonvolatile Program and Data Memories

– 1K bytes In-System Programmable Flash Program Memory

Endurance: 1,000 Write/Erase Cycles

– 64 bytes EEPROM

Endurance: 100,000 Write/Erase Cycles

– Programming Lock for Flash Program Data Security

•Peripheral Features

– Interrupt and Wakeup on Pin Change

– Two 8-bit Timer/Counters with Separate Prescalers

– One150 kHz, 8-bit High-speed PWM Output

– 4 channel 10-bit ADC

One Differential Voltage Input with Optional Gain of 20x

– On-chip Analog Comparator

– Programmable Watchdog Timer with On-chip Oscillator

•Special Microcontroller Features

– In-System Programmable via SPI Port

– Enhanced Power-on Reset Circuit

– Programmable Brown-out Detection Circuit

– Internal, Calibrated 1.6 MHz Tuneable Oscillator

– Internal 25.6 MHz Clock Generator for Timer/Counter

– External and Internal Interrupt Sources

– Low-power Idle and Power-down Modes

•I/O and Packages

– 8-pin PDIP/SOIC: 6 Programmable I/O Lines

•Operating Voltages

– 2.7V - 5.5V (ATtiny15L)

•Internal 1.6 MHz System Clock

•Commercial and Industrial Temperature Ranges

Description

The ATtiny15L is a low-power CMOS 8-bit microcontroller based on the AVR RISC

architecture. By executing powerful instructions in a single-clock cycle, the ATtiny15L

achieves throughputs approaching 1 MIPS per MHz allowing the system designer to

optimize power consumption versus processing speed.

Rev. 1187B–03/00

8-bit

Microcontroller

with 1K Bytes

Flash

ATtiny15L

Advance

Information

Pin Configuration

(RESET/ADC0) PB5

(ADC3) PB4

(ADC2) PB3

GND

VCC

PB2 (ADC1/SCK/T0/INT0)

PB1 (AIN1/MISO/OC1A)

PB0 (AIN0/AREF/MOSI)

PDIP/SOIC

(continued)

ATtiny15L

The AVR core combines a rich instruction set with 32 general-purpose working registers. All the 32 registers are directly

connected to the Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU), allowing two independent registers to be accessed in one single instruction

executed in one clock cycle. The resulting architecture is more code efficient while achieving throughputs up to ten times

faster than conventional CISC microcontrollers.

The ATtiny15L provides 1K bytes of Flash, 64 bytes EEPROM, 6 general-purpose I/O lines, 32 general-purpose working

registers, two 8-bit timer/counters, one with high speed PWM output, internal oscillators, internal and external interrupts,

programmable Watchdog Timer, 4-channel 10-bit Analog to Digital Converter with one differential voltage input with

optional 20x gain, and three software-selectable power-saving modes. The Idle mode stops the CPU while allowing the

ADC, analog comparator, timer/counters and interrupt system to continue functioning. The ADC Noise Reduction mode

facilitates high-accuracy ADC measurements by stopping the CPU while allowing the ADC to continue functioning. The

Power-down mode saves the register contents but freezes the oscillators, disabling all other chip functions until the next

interrupt or hardware reset. The wake-up or interrupt on pin change features enable the ATtiny15L to be highly responsive

to external events, still featuring the lowest power consumption while in the power-saving modes.

The device is manufactured using Atmel’s high density nonvolatile memory technology. By combining an enhanced RISC

8-bit CPU with Flash on a monolithic chip, the Atmel ATtiny15L is a powerful microcontroller that provides a highly-flexible

and cost-efficient solution to many embedded control applications. The peripheral features make the ATtiny15L particularly

suited for battery chargers, lighting ballasts, and all kinds of intelligent sensor applications.

The ATtiny15L AVR is supported with a full suite of program and system development tools including macro assemblers,

program debugger/simulators, in-circuit emulators, and evaluation kits.

ATtiny15L

Block Diagram

Figure 1. The ATtiny15L Block Diagram

PROGRAM

COUNTER

INTERNAL

OSCILLATOR

WATCHDOG

TIMER

STACK

POINTER

PROGRAM

FLASH

HARDWARE

STACK

MCU CONTROL

GENERAL

PURPOSE

REGISTERS

INSTRUCTION

TIMER/

COUNTER0

INSTRUCTION

DECODER

DATA DIR.

REG.PORT B

DATA REGISTER

PORT B

PROGRAMMING

LOGIC

TIMING AND

CONTROL

TIMER/

COUNTER1

MCU STATUS

STATUS

ALU

PORT B DRIVERS

PB0-PB5

VCC

GND

CONTROL

LINES

ANALOG

COMPARATOR

8-BIT DATABUS

ISP MODULE

INTERRUPT

UNIT

DATA

EEPROM

INTERNAL

OSCILLATOR

TUNABLE

ANALOG MUX ADC

ATtiny15L

Pin Descriptions

VCC

Supply voltage pin.

GND

Ground pin.

Port B (PB5..PB0)

Port B is a 6-bit I/O port. PB4..0 are I/O pins that can provide internal pull-ups (selected for each bit). PB5 is input or open-

drain output. The use of pin PB5 is defined by a fuse and the special function associated with this pin is external Reset. The

port pins are tri-stated when a reset condition becomes active, even if the clock is not running.

Port B also accommodates analog I/O pins. The Port B pins with alternate functions are shown in Table 1:

Analog Pins

Up to four analog inputs can be selected as inputs to Analog to digital converter (ADC).

Internal Oscillators

The internal oscillator provides a clock rate of nominally 1.6 MHz for the system clock CK. Due to large initial variation

(0.8 MHz -1.6 MHz) of the internal oscillator, a tuning capability is built in. Through an eight bit control register OSCCAL,

the system clock rate can be tuned with less than 1% steps of the nominal clock.

There is an internal PLL that provides a 16x clock rate locked to the system clock (CK) for the use of the Peripheral

Timer/Counter1. The nominal frequency of this peripheral clock, PCK, is 25.6 MHz.

Table 1. Port B Alternate Functions

Port Pin Alternate Function

PB0

MOSI (Data Input Line for Memory Downloading)

AREF (ADC Voltage Reference)

AIN0 (Analog Comparator Positive Input)

PB1

MISO (Data Output Line for Memory Downloading)

OC1A (Timer/Counter PWM Output)

AIN1 (Analog Comparator Negative Input)

PB2

SCK (Serial Clock Input for Serial Programming)

INT0 (External Interrupt0 Input)

ADC1 (ADC Input Channel 1)

T0 (Timer/Counter0 External Counter Input)

PB3 ADC2 (ADC Input Channel 2)

PB4 ADC3 (ADC Input Channel 3)

PB5 RESET (External Reset Pin)

ADC0 (ADC Input Channel 0)

ATtiny15L

ATtiny15L Architectural Overview

The fast-access register file concept contains 32 x 8-bit general-purpose working registers with a single-clock-cycle access

time. This means that during one single-clock cycle, one ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit) operation is executed. Two operands

are output from the register file, the operation is executed, and the result is stored back in the register file –in one clock

cycle.

Two of the 32 registers can be used as a 16-bit pointer for indirect memory access. This pointer is called the Z-pointer, and

can address the register file, IO file, and the Flash program memory.

Figure 2. The ATtiny15L AVR RISC Architecture

The ALU supports arithmetic and logic functions between registers or between a constant and a register. Single-register

operations are also executed in the ALU. Figure 2 shows the ATtiny15L AVR RISC microcontroller architecture. The AVR

uses a Harvard architecture concept with separate memories and buses for program and data memories. The program

memory is accessed with a two-stage pipelining. While one instruction is being executed, the next instruction is pre-fetched

from the program memory. This concept enables instructions to be executed in every clock cycle. The program memory is

in-system programmable Flash memory.

With the relative jump and relative call instructions, the whole address space is directly accessed. All AVR instructions have

a single 16-bit word format, meaning that every program memory address contains a single 16-bit instruction.

During interrupts and subroutine calls, the return address program counter (PC) is stored on the stack. The stack is a

3 level deep hardware stack dedicated for subroutines and interrupts.

The I/O memory space contains 64 addresses for CPU peripheral functions as Control Registers, Timer/Counters, and

other I/O functions. The memory spaces in the AVR architecture are all linear and regular memory maps.

A flexible interrupt module has its control registers in the I/O space with an additional global interrupt enable bit in the status

register. All the different interrupts have a separate interrupt vector in the interrupt vector table at the beginning of the pro-

gram memory. The different interrupts have priority in accordance with their interrupt vector position. The lower the

interrupt vector address, the higher the priority.

512 x 16

Program

FLASH

Instruction

Decoder

Program

Counter

Control Lines

32 x 8

General

Purpose

Registrers

ALU

Direct Addressing

Status

and Test

Control

Registrers

Interrupt

Unit

2 x 8-bit

Timer/Counter

Watchdog

Timer

Analog

Comparator

I/O Lines

Data Bus 8-bit

SPI Unit

ADC

64 x 8

EEPROM

ATtiny15L

The General-purpose Register File

Figure 3 shows the structure of the 32 general-purpose registers in the CPU.

Figure 3. AVR CPU General-purpose Working Registers

All the register operating instructions in the instruction set have direct- and single-cycle access to all registers. The only

exception is the five constant arithmetic and logic instructions SBCI, SUBI, CPI, ANDI, and ORI between a constant and a

register and the LDI instruction for load-immediate constant data. These instructions apply to the second half of the regis-

ters in the register file –R16..R31. The general SBC, SUB, CP, AND, OR and all other operations between two registers or

on a single-register apply to the entire register file.

Registers 30 and 31 form a 16-bit pointer (the Z-pointer) which is used for indirect Flash memory and register file access.

When the register file is accessed, the contents of R31 is discarded by the CPU.

The ALU – Arithmetic Logic Unit

The high-performance AVR ALU operates in direct connection with all the 32 general-purpose working registers. Within a

single-clock cycle, ALU operations between registers in the register file are executed. The ALU operations are divided into

three main categories –arithmetic, logic and bit-functions. Some microcontrollers in the AVR product family feature a hard-

ware multiplier in the arithmetic part of the ALU.

The Flash Program Memory

The ATtiny15L contains 1K bytes on-chip, in-system programmable Flash memory for program storage. Since all instruc-

tions are single 16-bit words, the Flash is organized as 512 x 16 words. The Flash memory has an endurance of at least

1000 write/erase cycles.

The ATtiny15L Program Counter is 9-bit wide, thus addressing the 512 words Flash program memory.

See page 48 for a detailed description on Flash memory programming.

The Program and Data Addressing Modes

The ATtiny15L AVR RISC Microcontroller supports powerful and efficient addressing modes. This section describes the

various addressing modes supported in the ATtiny15L. In the figures, OP means the operation code part of the instruction

word. To simplify, not all figures show the exact location of the addressing bits.

General …

Purpose …

Working R28

Registers R29

R30 (Z-Register low byte)R3

R31 (Z-Register high byte)

ATtiny15L

Figure 4. Direct Single-register Addressing

The operand is contained in register d (Rd).

Figure 5. Indirect Register Addressing

The register accessed is the one pointed to by the Z-register low byte (R30).

Figure 6. Direct Register Addressing, Two Registers

Operands are contained in register r (Rr) and d (Rd). The result is stored in register d (Rd).

ATtiny15L

I/O Direct

Figure 7. I/O Direct Addressing

Operand address is contained in 6 bits of the instruction word. n is the destination or source register address.

Relative Program Addressing, RJMP and RCALL

Figure 8. Relative Program Memory Addressing

Program execution continues at address PC + k + 1. The relative address k is -2048 to 2047.

Constant Addressing Using the LPM Instruction

Figure 9. Code Memory Constant Addressing

Constant byte address is specified by the Z-register contents. The 15 MSBs select word address (0 - 511), and LSB selects

low byte if cleared (LSB = 0) or high byte if set (LSB = 1).

$1FF

ATtiny15L

Subroutine and Interrupt Hardware Stack

The ATtiny15L uses a 3-level deep hardware stack for subroutines and interrupts. The hardware stack is 9-bit wide and

stores the Program Counter (PC) return address while subroutines and interrupts are executed.

RCALL instructions and interrupts push the PC return address onto stack level 0, and the data in the other stack levels 1-2

are pushed one level deeper in the stack. When a RET or RETI instruction is executed the returning PC is fetched from

stack level 0, and the data in the other stack levels 1-2 are popped one level in the stack.

If more than 3 subsequent subroutine calls or interrupts are executed, the first values written to the stack are overwritten.

Pushing four return addresses A1, A2, A3, and A4 followed by four subroutine or interrupt returns, will pop A4, A3, A2, and

once more A2 from the hardware stack.

The EEPROM Data Memory

The ATtiny15L contains 64 bytes of data EEPROM memory. It is organized as a separate data space, in which single bytes

can be read and written. The EEPROM has an endurance of at least 100,000 write/erase cycles. The access between the

EEPROM and the CPU is described on page 25, specifying the EEPROM Address Register, the EEPROM Data Register,

and the EEPROM Control Register.

Memory Access and Instruction Execution Timing

This section describes the general access timing concepts for instruction execution and internal memory access.

The AVR CPU is driven by the System Clock Ø, directly generated from the external clock crystal for the chip. No internal

clock division is used.

Figure 10 shows the parallel instruction fetches and instruction executions enabled by the Harvard architecture and the

fast-access register file concept. This is the basic pipelining concept to obtain up to 1 MIPS per MHz with the corresponding

unique results for functions per cost, functions per clocks, and functions per power-unit.

Figure 10. The Parallel Instruction Fetches and Instruction Executions

Figure 11 shows the internal timing concept for the register file. In a single-clock cycle an ALU operation using two register

operands is executed, and the result is stored back to the destination register.

Figure 11. Single Cycle ALU Operation

System Clock Ø

1st Instruction Fetch

1st Instruction Execute

2nd Instruction Fetch

2nd Instruction Execute

3rd Instruction Fetch

3rd Instruction Execute

4th Instruction Fetch

T1 T2 T3 T4

System Clock Ø

Total Execution Time

ALU Operation Execute

Result Write Back

T1 T2 T3 T4

ATtiny15L

I/O Memory

The I/O space definition of the ATtiny15L is shown in the following table:

Note: Reserved and unused locations are not shown in the table.

All ATtiny15L I/O and peripheral registers are placed in the I/O space. The I/O locations are accessed by the IN and OUT

instructions transferring data between the 32 general-purpose working registers and the I/O space. I/O registers within the

address range $00 - $1F are directly bit-accessible using the SBI and CBI instructions. In these registers, the value of sin-

gle bits can be checked by using the SBIS and SBIC instructions. Refer to the instruction set chapter for more details. For

compatibility with future devices, reserved bits should be written zero if accessed. Reserved I/O memory addresses should

never be written.

The I/O and peripheral control registers are explained in the following sections.

Table 2. ATtiny15L I/O Space

Address Hex Name Function

$3F SREG Status Register

$3B GIMSK General Interrupt Mask Register

$3A GIFR General Interrupt Flag Register

$39 TIMSK Timer/Counter Interrupt Mask Register

$38 TIFR Timer/Counter Interrupt Flag Register

$35 MCUCR MCU Control Register

$34 MCUSR MCU Status Register

$33 TCCR0 Timer/Counter0 Control Register

$32 TCNT0 Timer/Counter0 (8-bit)

$31 OSCCAL Oscillator Calibration Register

$30 TCCR1 Timer/Counter1 Control Register

$2F TCNT1 Timer/Counter1 (8-bit)

$2E OCR1A Timer/Counter1 Output Compare Register A

$2D OCR1B Timer/Counter1 Output Compare Register B

$2C SFIOR Special Function I/O Register

$21 WDTCR Watchdog Timer Control Register

$1E EEAR EEPROM Address Register

$1D EEDR EEPROM Data Register

$1C EECR EEPROM Control Register

$18 PORTB Data Register, Port B

$17 DDRB Data Direction Register, Port B

$16 PINB Input Pins, Port B

$08 ACSR Analog Comparator Control and Status Register

$07 ADMUX ADC Multiplexer Select Register

$06 ADCSR ADC Control and Status Register

$05 ADCH ADC Data Register High

$04 ADCL ADC Data Register Low

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