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I'm trying to drive an LED at 38kHz with a low duty cycle like 10% from an Atmel ATTiny88. The chip is currently running at 8MHz, but could be adjusted for this portion of code, if need be.

Using the Timer1 with PWM I seem to either have the option to have decent control over the frequency, or I can only use the prescalers to adjust frequency and have control over the duty cycle. I have not found a way to have both the tight control over frequency and also be able to adjust the duty cycle.

Is there a solution that would allow for this, or is it not possible on these microcontrollers?

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Wavegen mode 14 on timer 1 will allow you to control both frequency (via prescaler and ICR1) and duty cycle (via OCR1A and OCR1B).

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    – ArraysStartAtSeven
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Perhaps you could use an external clock source but I'm not sure how ATTiny reacts to variable frequency.

What exactly do you want to achieve? I hope you're not re-inventing Phase Correct PWM :)

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