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must be set to ‘1’. This turns off the oscillator circuit, extending the battery life. If the OSCEN bit goes from disabled to enabled, it takes approximately one second (two seconds maximum) for the oscillator to start.
While system power is off, If the voltage on the backup supply (VRTCcap or VRTCbat) falls below their respective minimum level, the oscillator may fail.The CY14B104K has the ability to detect oscillator failure when system power is restored. This is recorded in the OSCF (Oscillator Failed bit) of the flags register at the address 0x7FFF0. When the device is powered on (VCC goes above VSWITCH) the OSCEN bit is checked for “enabled” status. If the OSCEN bit is enabled and the oscillator is not active within the first 5 ms, the OSCF bit is set to “1”. The system must check for this condition and then write ‘0’ to clear the flag. Note that in addition to setting the OSCF flag bit, the time registers are reset to the “Base Time” (see Setting the Clock on page 6), which is the value last written to the timekeeping registers. The control or calibration registers and the OSCEN bit are not affected by the ‘oscillator failed’ condition.
The value of OSCF must be reset to ‘0’ when the time registers are written for the first time. This initializes the state of this bit which may have become set when the system was first powered on.
To reset OSCF, set the write bit “W” (in the Flags register at 0x7FFF0) to a “1” to enable writes to the Flag register. Write a “0” to the OSCF bit and then reset the write bit to “0” to disable writes.
Calibrating the Clock
The RTC is driven by a quartz controlled crystal with a nominal frequency of 32.768 kHz. Clock accuracy depends on the quality of the crystal and calibration. The crystals available in market typically have an error of +20 ppm to +35 ppm. However, CY14B104K employs a calibration circuit that improves the accuracy to
The calibration circuit adds or subtracts counts from the oscillator divider circuit to achieve this accuracy. The number of pulses that are suppressed (subtracted, negative calibration) or split (added, positive calibration) depends upon the value loaded into the five calibration bits found in Calibration register at 0x7FFF8. The calibration bits occupy the five lower order bits in the Calibration register. These bits are set to represent any value between ‘0’ and 31 in binary form. Bit D5 is a sign bit, where a ‘1’ indicates positive calibration and a ‘0’ indicates negative calibration. Adding counts speeds the clock up and subtracting counts slows the clock down. If a binary ‘1’ is loaded into the register, it corre- sponds to an adjustment of 4.068 or
Calibration occurs within a
To determine the required calibration, the CAL bit in the Flags register (0x7FFF0) must be set to ‘1’. This causes the INT pin to
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toggle at a nominal frequency of 512 Hz. Any deviation measured from the 512 Hz indicates the degree and direction of the required correction. For example, a reading of 512.01024 Hz indicates a +20 ppm error. Hence, a decimal value of
Note Setting or changing the Calibration register does not affect the test output frequency.
To set or clear CAL, set the write bit “W” (in the flags register at 0x7FFF0) to “1” to enable writes to the Flag register. Write a value to CAL, and then reset the write bit to “0” to disable writes.
Alarm
The alarm function compares user programmed values of alarm time and date (stored in the registers
There are four alarm match fields - date, hours, minutes, and seconds. Each of these fields has a match bit that is used to determine if the field is used in the alarm match logic. Setting the match bit to ‘0’ indicates that the corresponding field is used in the match process. Depending on the match bits, the alarm occurs as specifically as once a month or as frequently as once every minute. Selecting none of the match bits (all 1s) indicates that no match is required and therefore, alarm is disabled. Selecting all match bits (all 0s) causes an exact time and date match.
There are two ways to detect an alarm event: by reading the AF flag or monitoring the INT pin. The AF flag in the flags register at 0x7FFF0 indicates that a date or time match has occurred. The AF bit is set to “1” when a match occurs. Reading the flags register clears the alarm flag bit (and all others). A hardware interrupt pin may also be used to detect an alarm event.
To set, clear or enable an alarm, set the ‘W’ bit (in Flags Register
-0x7FFF0) to ‘1’ to enable writes to Alarm Registers. After writing the alarm value, clear the ‘W’ bit back to “0” for the changes to take effect.
Note CY14B104K requires the alarm match bit for seconds (0x7FFF2 - D7) to be set to ‘0’ for proper operation of Alarm Flag and Interrupt.
Watchdog Timer
The Watchdog Timer is a free running down counter that uses the 32 Hz clock (31.25 ms) derived from the crystal oscillator. The oscillator must be running for the watchdog to function. It begins counting down from the value loaded in the Watchdog Timer register.
The timer consists of a loadable register and a free running counter. On power up, the watchdog time out value in register 0x7FFF7 is loaded into the Counter Load register. Counting begins on power up and restarts from the loadable value any time the Watchdog Strobe (WDS) bit is set to ‘1’. The counter is compared to the terminal value of ‘0’. If the counter reaches this value, it causes an internal flag and an optional interrupt output. You can prevent the time out interrupt by setting WDS bit to ‘1’ prior to the counter reaching ‘0’. This causes the counter to reload with the watchdog time out value and to be restarted. As long as the user sets the WDS bit prior to the counter reaching the terminal value, the interrupt and WDT flag never occur.
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