PRELIMINARY
December 1993
LV8573A Low Voltage Real Time Clock (RTC)
General Description
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main supply to the battery supply.
The LV8573A is intended for use in microprocessor based
systems where information is required for multi-tasking, data
logging or general time of day/date information. This device
is implemented in low voltage silicon gate microCMOS tech-
nology to provide low standby power in battery back-up en-
vironments. The circuit’s architecture is such that it looks
like a contiguous block of memory or I/O ports organized as
one block of 32 bytes. This includes the Control Registers,
the Clock Counters, the Alarm Compare RAM, and the Time
Save RAM.
V , internal circuitry will automatically switch from the
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The LV8573A’s interrupt structure provides three basic
types of interrupts: Periodic, Alarm/Compare, and Power
Fail. Interrupt mask and status registers enable the masking
and easy determination of each interrupt.
Features
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3.3V 10% supply
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Full function real time clock/calendar
Ð 12/24 hour mode timekeeping
Ð Day of week counter
Time and date are maintained from 1/100 of a second to
year and leap year in a BCD format, 12 or 24 hour modes.
Day of week and day of month counters are provided. Time
is controlled by an on-chip crystal oscillator requiring only
the addition of the 32.768 kHz crystal and two capacitors.
Ð Parallel resonant oscillator
Power fail features
Ð Internal power supply switch to external battery
Ð Power Supply Bus glitch protection
Ð Automatic log of time into RAM at power failure
On-chip interrupt structure
Power failure logic and control functions have been integrat-
ed on chip. This logic is used by the RTC to issue a power
fail interrupt, and lock out the mP interface. The time power
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fails may be logged into RAM automatically when V
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. Additionally, two supply pins are provided. When V
Ð Periodic, alarm, and power fail interrupts
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Block Diagram
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