AMD SC1200, SC1201 manual Interrupt Handling, Battery-Backed RAMs and Registers, 110

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5.5.2.9Interrupt Handling

The RTC has a single Interrupt Request line which handles the following three interrupt conditions:

•Periodic interrupt.

•Alarm interrupt.

•Update end interrupt.

The interrupts are generated if the respective enable bits in the CRB register are set prior to an interrupt event occur- rence. Reading the CRC register clears all interrupt flags. Thus, when multiple interrupts are enabled, the interrupt service routine should first read and store the CRC regis- ter, and then deal with all pending interrupts by referring to this stored status.

If an interrupt is not serviced before a second occurrence of the same interrupt condition, the second interrupt event is lost. Figure 5-12illustrates the interrupt timing in the RTC.

Bit 7
of CRA	A
244 μs
Bit 4
of CRC
P
P/2	P/2
Bit 6
of CRC
B	C
30.5	μs
Bit 5
of CRC

Flags (and IRQ) are reset at the conclusion of CRC read or by reset.

A = Update In Progress bit high before update occurs = 244 μs

B = Periodic interrupt to update = Period (periodic int) / 2 +

244μs

C =Update to Alarm Interrupt = 30.5 μs

P = Period is programmed by RS[3:0] of CRA

Figure 5-12. Interrupt/Status Timing

5.5.2.10 Battery-Backed RAMs and Registers

The RTC has two battery-backed RAMs and 17 registers, used by the logical units themselves. Battery-backup power enables information retention during system power down.

The RAMs are:

•Standard RAM

•Extended RAM

The memory maps and register content of the RAMs is provided in Section 5.5.4 "RTC General-Purpose RAM Map" on page 115.

The first 14 bytes and 3 programmable bytes of the Stan- dard RAM are overlaid by time, alarm data and control reg- isters. The remaining 111 bytes are general-purpose memory.

Registers with reserved bits should be written using the read-modify-write method.

All register locations within the device are accessed by the RTC Index and Data registers (at base address and base address+1). The Index register points to the register loca- tion being accessed, and the Data register contains the data to be transferred to or from the location. An additional 128 bytes of battery-backed RAM (also called Extended RAM) may be accessed via a second pair of Index and Data registers.

Access to the two RAMs may be locked. For details see Table 5-7 on page 99.

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