Functional Description (Continued)
the chip is unlocked, but only after another 30 ms min
x
63 ms max debounce time. The system designer must en-
sure that his system is stable when power has returned.
The power fail circuitry contains active linear circuitry that
draws supply current from VCC. In some cases this may be
undesirable, so this circuit can be disabled by masking the
power fail interrupt. The power fail input can perform all
lock-out functions previously mentioned, except that no ex-
ternal interrupt will be issued. Note that the linear power fail
circuitry is switched off automatically when using VBB in
standby mode.
LOW BATTERY, INITIAL POWER ON DETECT, AND
POWER FAIL TIME SAVE
There are three other functions provided on the DP8570A to
ease power supply control. These are an initial Power On
detect circuit, which also can be used as a time keeping
failure detect, a low battery detect circuit, and a time save
on power failure.
On initial power up the Oscillator Fail Flag will be set to a
one and the real time clock start bit reset to a zero. This
indicates that an oscillator fail event has occurred, and time
keeping has failed.
The Oscillator Fail flag will not be reset until the real-time
clock is started. This allows the system to discriminate be-
tween an initial power-up and recovery from a power failure.
If the battery backed mode is selected, then bit D6 of the
Periodic Flag Register must be written low. This will not af-
fect the contents of the Oscillator Fail Flag.
Another status bit is the low battery detect. This bit is set
only when the clock is operating under the VCC pin, and
when the battery voltage is determined to be less than 2.1V
(typical). When the power fail interrupt enable bit is low, it
disables the power fail circuit and will also shut off the low
battery voltage detection circuit as well.
To relieve CPU overhead for saving time upon power failure,
the Time Save Enable bit is provided to do this automatical-
ly. (See also Reading the Clock: Latched Read.) The Time
Save Enable bit, when set, causes the Time Save RAM to
follow the contents of the clock. This bit can be reset by
software, but if set before a power failure occurs, it will auto-
matically be reset when the clock switches to the battery
supply (not when a power failure is detected by the PFAIL
pin). Thus, writing a one to the Time Save bit enables both a
software write or power fail write.
SINGLE POWER SUPPLY APPLICATIONS
The DP8570A can be used in a single power supply applica-
tion. To achieve this, the VBB pin must be connected to
ground, and the power connected to VCC and PFAIL pins.
The Oscillator Failed/Single Supply bit in the Periodic Flag
Register should be set to a logic 1, which will disable the
oscillator battery reference circuit. The power fail interrupt
should also be disabled. This will turn off the linear power
fail detection circuits, and will eliminate any quiescent power
drawn through these circuits. Until the crystal select bits are
initialized, the DP8570A may consume about 50 mA due to
arbitrary oscillator selection at power on.
(This extra 50 mA is not consumed if the battery backed
mode is selected).
TIMER FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
The DP8570A contains 2 independent multi-mode timers.
Each timer is composed of a 16-bit negative edge triggered
binary down counter and associated control. The operation
is similar to existing mP peripheral timers except that several
features have been enhanced. The timers can operate in
four modes, and in addition, the input clock frequency can
be selected from a prescaler over a wide range of frequen-
cies. Furthermore, these timers are capable of generating
interrupts as well as hardware output signals, and both the
interrupt and timer outputs are fully programmable active
high, or low, open drain, or push-pull.
Figure 7
shows the functional block diagram of one of the
timers. The timer consists of a 16-bit counter, two 8-bit input
registers, two 8-bit output registers, clock prescaler, mode
control logic, and output control logic. The timer and the
data registers are organized as two bytes for each timer.
Under normal operations a read/write to the timer locations
will read or write to the data input register. The timer con-
tents can be read by setting the counter Read bit (RD) in the
timer control register.
TIMER INITIALIZATION
The timer’s operation is controlled by a set of registers, as
listed in Table III. These consist of 2 data input registers and
one control register per timer. The data input registers con-
tain the timers count down value. The Timer Control Regis-
ter is used to set up the mode of operation and the input
clock rate. The timer related interrupts can be controlled by
programming the Interrupt Routing Register and Interrupt
Control Register 0. The timer outputs are configured by the
Output Mode Register.
TABLE III. Timer Associated Registers
Register Name Register Page Address
Select Select
Timer 0 Data MSB X 0 10H
Timer 0 Data LSB X 0 0FH
Timer 0 Control Register 0 0 01H
Timer 1 Data MSB X 0 12H
Timer 1 Data LSB X 0 11H
Timer 1 Control Register 0 0 02H
Interrupt Routing Register 0 0 04H
Interrupt Control Reg. 0 1 0 03H
Output Mode Register 1 0 02H
All these registers must be initialized prior to starting the
timer(s). The Timer Control Register should first be set to
select the timer mode with the timer start/stop bit reset.
Then when the timer is to be started the control register
should be rewritten identically but with the start/stop bit set.
TIMER OPERATION
Each timer is capable of operation in one of four modes. As
mentioned, these modes are programmed in each timer’s
Control Register which is described later. All four modes
operate in a similar manner. They operate on the two 8-bit
data words stored into the Data Input Register. At the begin-
ning of a counting cycle the 2 bytes are loaded into the timer
and the timer commences counting down towards zero. The
exact action taken when zero is reached depends on the
mode selected, but in general, the timer output will change
state, and an interrupt will be generated if the timer inter-
rupts are unmasked.
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