I'm not 100% certain without my Due in front of me to test this, but as far as I can see, you are configuring your clock to run at 42MHz with "TC_CMR_TCCLKS_TIMER_CLOCK1" and are getting the timer to trigger when the count is "1" with "TC_SetRC(tc, channel, 1);", which would give you 42MHz, not 4MHz.
Since the clock timer still increments during the TC6_Handler() function, I'm guessing that the interrupt triggers a second time before it has exited the function the first time causing a hang.
Try changing your code to "TC_SetRC(tc, channel, 42000000 / 4000000);" to see if that works. Your interrupt will still be triggered every 10 ticks of the timer which will only give you 20 ticks of the CPU clock to do your work and exit. I suspect this may still be too little time to exit before the next interrupt is triggered. If you still don't get the result you want, try reducing the frequency considerably to see if your timer is actually getting configured correctly. I don't think you can get exactly 4MHz as the Due timer frequencies are not divisible by 4000000, unless my brain is a little fuzzy this morning and I'm missing something obvious...
If you do need to optimise the code inside your handler so it can run faster, let me know and I'll post some ideas when I can get near my Due and my source code for reference.
You could always check out this link that I used when I needed to understand how to set up a timer for my own projects:
http://2manyprojects.net/timer-interrupts
Should that link go dead before you have a chance to read up, this is the example source from that page I modified for my own purposes:
// These are the clock frequencies available to the timers /2,/8,/32,/128
// 84Mhz/2 = 42.000 MHz
// 84Mhz/8 = 10.500 MHz
// 84Mhz/32 = 2.625 MHz
// 84Mhz/128 = 656.250 KHz
//
// 42Mhz/44.1Khz = 952.38
// 10.5Mhz/44.1Khz = 238.09
// 2.625Hmz/44.1Khz = 59.5
// 656Khz/44.1Khz = 14.88 // 131200 / 656000 = .2 (.2 seconds)
// 84Mhz/44.1Khz = 1904 instructions per tick
const int led_pin = 13;
int state = false;
int interruptCtr = 1;
int S = 0;
void setup()
{
pinMode(led_pin, OUTPUT);
/* turn on the timer clock in the power management controller */
pmc_set_writeprotect(false); // disable write protection for pmc registers
pmc_enable_periph_clk(ID_TC7); // enable peripheral clock TC7
/* we want wavesel 01 with RC */
TC_Configure(/* clock */TC2,/* channel */1, TC_CMR_WAVE | TC_CMR_WAVSEL_UP_RC | TC_CMR_TCCLKS_TIMER_CLOCK4);
TC_SetRC(TC2, 1, 131200);
TC_Start(TC2, 1);
// enable timer interrupts on the timer
TC2->TC_CHANNEL[1].TC_IER=TC_IER_CPCS; // IER = interrupt enable register
TC2->TC_CHANNEL[1].TC_IDR=~TC_IER_CPCS; // IDR = interrupt disable register
/* Enable the interrupt in the nested vector interrupt controller */
/* TC4_IRQn where 4 is the timer number * timer channels (3) + the channel number (=(1*3)+1) for timer1 channel1 */
NVIC_EnableIRQ(TC7_IRQn);
}
void loop()
{
// do nothing timer interrupts will handle the blinking;
}
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// INTERRUPT HANDLERS
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
void TC7_Handler()
{
// We need to get the status to clear it and allow the interrupt to fire again
TC_GetStatus(TC2, 1);
state = !state;
digitalWrite(led_pin, state);
if( interruptCtr++ >= 6 )
{
interruptCtr = 1;
S = !S; // are we flashing S or O
if( S ) // set time till next interrupt
TC_SetRC(TC2, 1, 131200); // 131200 / 656000 = .2 seconds
else
TC_SetRC(TC2, 1, 656000); // 656000/ 656000 = 1 second
}
}
