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Correct. You can't jam sync timecode to it, which is a bit unfortunate.
It generates its own internal timecode and embeds that on all of the SDI outputs. Cameras like the Ursa Mini Pro (and soon the Ursa Broadcast — once the new firmware update comes out) can pick that timecode up and sync to it from their SDI inputs.
This is pretty slick overall when you've got all Ursas, as you were likely already running a second SDI (or fiber) to the camera for paint and tally. Now you've also got synced timecode for your switcher and cameras with zero extra effort.
When dealing with non-Ursas (or audio recorders, etc.), the Teranex Mini SDI to Audio (or SDI to HDMI, or SDI to Analog) has a feature to output the SDI timecode as LTC via XLR. And from there you can jam sync Tentacles or audio recorders or whatever.
I've tested this and it works reasonably well for my situation — it just requires a bit of a paradigm shift to consider the ATEM to be the timecode master for your production. Obviously this won't work for larger facilities or multiple switchers.
You can set the timecode in the GUI (to the second... which is close enough for roughly time-of-day, but not really close enough to be considered a jam sync). Also, there's no option to specify drop or non-drop, so it does drop for the 29.97-ish timecodes and non-drop for everything else.