Is it possible for CPU to run over 24 MHz?

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On BCM20737, is it possible to clock CPU over 24 MHz?

Our use case is using PUART at ~1Mbps and it is observed that PUART callback latency is substantially long sometimes

especially when the Master device receives data from the multiple Slaves simultaneously.

So, I wanted to check the possibility of bumping up CPU clock speed.

Thanks

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MichaelF_56
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I am not aware of a way to run the CPu fastr than 24 MHz.

We can throttle the CPU speed down for power savings, but not up for more performance.

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MichaelF_56
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I am not aware of a way to run the CPu fastr than 24 MHz.

We can throttle the CPU speed down for power savings, but not up for more performance.

79rpm

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Upppps, the CPU is just running with 24MHz?

I am scared, too slow (in power saving mode OK, but in full speed mode just 24 MHz?).

I have not realized such a low speed of the main processor (anything else on market seems to be faster).

How should we run later bigger SW stacks, e.g. for 6LoWPAN (IPv6 over BLE)?

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24MHz CPU speed is sufficient for most applications. This chip is designed for low power, low energy applications. Some of the competitors' chips run at a much lower speed than this or use less powerful processors.