ISL1208IB8Z-TKR5291

Description

The ISL1208 device is a low power real time clock with timing and crystal compensation, clock/calendar, power fail indicator, periodic or polled alarm, intelligent battery backup switching, and battery-backed user SRAM.

The oscillator uses an external, low-cost 32.768kHz crystal.

The real time clock tracks time with separate registers for hours, minutes, and seconds. The device has calendar registers for date, month, year and day of the week. The calendar is accurate through 2099, with automatic leap year correction.

The ISL1208's powerful alarm can be set to any clock/calendar value for a match. For example, every minute, every Tuesday or at 5:23 AM on March 21. The alarm status is available by checking the Status Register, or the device can be configured to provide a hardware interrupt via the IRQ pin. There is a repeat mode for the alarm allowing a periodic interrupt every minute, every hour, every day, etc.

The device also offers a backup power input pin. This VBAT pin allows the device to be backed up by battery or Super Capacitor with automatic switchover from VDD to VBAT. The entire ISL1208 device is fully operational from 2.0V to 5.5V and the clock/calendar portion of the device remains fully operational down to 1.8V (Standby Mode).

Features

   1. Real Time Clock/Calendar

   2. 15 Selectable Frequency Outputs

   3. Single Alarm

   4. Automatic Backup to Battery or Super Capacitor

   5. Power Failure Detection

   6. On-Chip Oscillator Compensation

   7. 2 Bytes Battery-Backed User SRAM

   8. I2C Interface

   9. 400nA Battery Supply Current

 10. Same Pin Out as ST M41Txx and Maxim DS13xx Devices

 11. Small Package Options

 12. Pb-Free Available (RoHS Compliant)

Pinout

The X1 and X2 pins are the input and output, respectively, of an inverting amplifier. An external 32.768kHz quartz crystal is used with the ISL1208 to supply a timebase for the real time clock. Internal compensation circuitry provides high accuracy over the operating temperature range from -40°C to +85°C. This oscillator compensation network can be used to calibrate the crystal timing accuracy over temperature either during manufacturing or with an external temperature sensor and microcontroller for active compensation. The device can also be driven directly from a 32.768kHz source at pin X1.

Power Failure Detection

The ISL1208 provides a Real Time Clock Failure Bit (RTCF) to detect total power failure. It allows users to determine if the device has powered up after having lost all power to the device (both VDD and VBAT).

Low Power Mode

The normal power switching of the ISL1208 is designed to switch into battery backup mode only if the VDD power is lost. This will ensure that the device can accept a wide range of backup voltages from many types of sources while reliably switching into backup mode. Another mode, called Low Power Mode, is available to allow direct switching from VDD to VBAT without requiring VDD to drop below VTRIP. Since the additional monitoring of VDD vs VTRIP is no longer needed, that circuitry is shut down and less power is used while operating from VDD. Power savings are typically 600nA at VDD = 5V. Low Power Mode is activated via the LPMODE bit in the control and status registers.

Low Power Mode is useful in systems where VDD is normally higher than VBAT at all times. The device will switch from VDD to VBAT when VDD drops below VBAT, with about 50mV of hysteresis to prevent any switchback of VDD after switchover. In a system with a VDD = 5V and backup lithium battery of VBAT = 3V, Low Power Mode can be used.

However, it is not recommended to use Low Power Mode in a system with VDD = 3.3V ±10%, VBAT ≥ 3.0V, and when there is a finite I-R voltage drop in the VDD line.

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