2-Wire™ RTC
X1203
Real Time Clock/Calendar/Alarm
DESCRIPTION
FEATURES
• 2 Alarms—Interrupt Output
The X1203 is a Real Time Clock with clock/calendar
circuits and two alarms. The dual port clock and alarm
registers allow the clock to operate, without loss of
accuracy, even during read and write operations.
—Settable on the second, 10s of seconds,
minute, 10s of minutes, hour, day, month, or
day of the week
—Repeat alarm for time base generation
• 2 Wire interface interoperable with I2C
—400kHz data transfer rate
• Secondary Power Supply Input with internal
Switch-Over Circuitry
• Year 2000 Compliant
• Low Power CMOS
—<1µA operating current
The clock/calendar provides functionality that is con-
trollable and readable through a set of registers. The
clock, using a low cost 32.768kHz crystal input, accu-
rately tracks the time in seconds, minutes, hours, date,
day, month and years. It has leap year correction,
automatic adjustment for the year 2000 and months
with less than 31 days.
—<3µA active current during program
—<400µA active current during data read
• Typical Nonvolatile Write Cycle Time: 5ms
• High Reliability
An alarm match of the RTC sets an interrupt flag and
activates an interrupt pin. An alternative alarm function
provides a pulsed interrupt for long time constant time-
bases.
—100,000 endurance cycles
The device offers a backup power input pin. This
Vback pin allows the device to be backed up by a non-
rechargeable battery. The RTC is fully operational from
2.5 to 6 volts.
—Guaranteed data retention: 100 years
• Small Package Options
—8-lead SOIC package, 8-lead TSSOP package
BLOCK DIAGRAM
X1
Timer
Calendar
Logic
Frequency
Divider
1Hz
32.768kHz
Oscillator
Time
X2
Keeping
Registers
(SRAM)
Control
Status
Control
Decode
Logic
Compare
Registers
Registers
Alarm
(EEPROM)
(SRAM)
Serial
Interface
Decoder
SCL
SDA
Alarm Regs
(EEPROM)
8
Interrupt Enable
Alarm
IRQ
Xicor, Inc. 2000 Patents Pending
9900-3002.1 4/28/00 EP
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