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MOD-RTC development board USER’S MANUAL Initial release, May 2012 Designed by OLIMEX Ltd, 2011 All boards produced by Olimex LTD are ROHS compliant...
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This document is intended only to assist the reader in the use of the product. OLIMEX Ltd. shall not be liable for any loss or damage arising from the use of any information in this document or any error or omission in such information or any incorrect use of the product.
Thank you for choosing the MOD-RTC extension module from Olimex! This device is a tiny implementation of NXP's real-time clock/calendar chip PCF8563. The main purpose of MOD-RTC is adding real-time clock to another Olimex board via the UEXT connector without the need of a hardware modification.
- MOD-RTC module itself - an OLIMEX board to use as a host (Note that it is possible to use another board without UEXT but that might cost you the ease of use – e.g. you will have to manually connect wires in the proper order) Additionally if your host board can't provide 3.3V on the UEXT connector you will need 3V battery...
3. Introduction to the chapter Here you get acquainted with the main parts of the board. Note the names used on the board differ from the names used to describe them. For the actual names check the MOD-RTC board itself. 3.1 Layout (bottom view)
CHAPTER 4 THE PCF8563 CMOS REAL-TIME CLOCK 4. Introduction to the chapter In this chapter is located the information about the heart of MOD-RTC. The information is a modified version of the datasheet provided by its manufacturers. 4.1 The PCF8563 Provides year, month, day, weekday, hours, minutes, and seconds based on •...
3V battery can be inserted to power the board externally. Insert the battery with its positive side top. 6.2 UEXT MOD-RTC board has UEXT connector and can interface Olimex's UEXT modules. Since MOD- RTC is configured as a (slave) device it is advisable to be connected to a host device.
In this chapter are located the schematics describing logically and physically MOD-RTC. 7.1 Eagle schematic MOD-RTC schematic is visible for reference here. You can also find them on the web page for MOD-RTC at our site: http://www.olimex.com/dev/MOD-RTC.html. They are located in HARDWARE section.
The web page you can visit for more info on your device is http://www.olimex.com/dev/MOD- RTC.html. There you can find more info and some examples. ORDER CODES: MOD-RTC - completely assembled and tested How to order? You can order to us directly or by any of our distributors. Check our webpage http://www.olimex.com/...