The Real-Time Clock - Motorola MPC823e Reference Manual

Bits 10–11—Reserved
These bits are reserved and must be set to 0.
REFAE and REFBE—Reference Interrupt Enable
If one of these bits is asserted, the timebase generates an interrupt on assertion of the REFA
or REFB bit. Otherwise, the interrupt is disabled.
TBF—Timebase Freeze Enable
0 = The timebase and decrementer are unaffected.
1 = The FRZ signal stops the timebase and decrementer.
TBE—Timebase Enable
0 = Disables timebase and decrementer operation.
1 = Enables timebase and decrementer operation.

12.7 THE REAL-TIME CLOCK

The real-time clock is a 45-bit counter that is clocked by the PITRTCLK clock. It is used to
provide time-of-day indication to the operating system and application software. The counter
is not affected by reset and operates in all low-power modes. It is initialized by the software.
The real-time clock can be programmed to generate a maskable interrupt when the time
value matches the value programmed in the alarm register. It can also be programmed to
generate an interrupt once every second. A control and status register is used to enable or
disable the different functions and report the interrupt source. The real-time clock
registers—RTCSC, RTC, RTSEC, and RTCAL—are protected ("locked") from accidental
writes after PORESET. To unlock the registers, you must write a key word (0x55CCAA33)
to the RTCK register. Refer to Section 5.4.2 Keep-Alive Power for more information.
FRZ
CLOCK
PITRTCLK
DISABLE
CLOCK
Figure 12-4. Real-Time Clock Block Diagram
MOTOROLA
RTSEC
DIVIDE
BY 8,192
MUX
DIVIDE
BY 9,600
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SEC
INTERRUPT
32-BIT COUNTER
ALARM
=
INTERRUPT
32-BIT REGISTER
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