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14. Real Time Clock (RTC)
14.1 Description
The Real-time Clock (RTC) peripheral is designed for very low power consumption.
It combines a complete time-of-day clock with alarm and a two-hundred-year Gregorian calen-
dar, complemented by a programmable periodic interrupt. The alarm and calendar registers are
accessed by a 32-bit data bus.
The time and calendar values are coded in binary-coded decimal (BCD) format. The time format
can be 24-hour mode or 12-hour mode with an AM/PM indicator.
Updating time and calendar fields and configuring the alarm fields are performed by a parallel
capture on the 32-bit data bus. An entry control is performed to avoid loading registers with
incompatible BCD format data or with an incompatible date according to the current
month/year/century.
14.2 Embedded Characteristics
• Low Power Consumption
• Full asynchronous design
• Two hundred year calendar
• Programmable Periodic Interrupt
• Alarm and update parallel load
• Control of alarm and update Time/Calendar Data In
14.3 Block Diagram
Figure 14-1. RTC Block Diagram
Bus Interface
32768 Divider TimeSlow Clock: SLCK
Bus Interface
Date
RTC Interrupt
Entry
Control
Interrupt
Control