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- From: sr3745@dean1.usma.edu (Roeber Rodney MAJ)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: WANTED: datasheet for Motorola MC146818 Real Time Clock chip
- Message-ID: <387@dean1.usma.edu>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 04:18:29 GMT
- References: <342.filbo@deeptht.santa-cruz.ca.us>
- Reply-To: sr3745@dean1.UUCP (MAJ Rodney B. Roeber)
- Organization: US Military Academy, West Point, NY
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- In article <342.filbo@deeptht.santa-cruz.ca.us> belal@sco.COM (Bela Lubkin) writes:
- >Can anyone email me, or point me to a datasheet for the Motorola
- >MC146818 Real Time Clock chip used in IBM AT type computers?
- >
- >What I'm most looking for is a table of the possible values for bits 3:0
- >of "status register A" -- the "rate selection bits". The documentation
- >I have says that the IBM BIOS initializes these bits to 0110, thus
- >selecting a 1024 Hz square wave. Unfortunately, it doesn't bother to
- >document what the other 15 combinations mean. If you have only a
- >printed datasheet, let me know if you're willing to type in that table.
- >
- >I suspect there's a lookup table in the chip, and that there might be
- >different versions of the chip with different lookup tables. Any
- >further information or warnings about that would be appreciated.
- >
- >If I receive an online datasheet I will make it available to others;
- >send me a request now (via email). I do not intend to post it -- the
- >concept of a "summary" of a datasheet doesn't seem to make much sense...
- >
- >Thanks in advance!
- >
- >Bela Lubkin * * // filbo@deeptht.santa-cruz.ca.us ZURC ATNAS morf EVIL!
- > @ * * // belal@sco.com uunet!sco!belal uunet!sco!deeptht!filbo
- >R Pentomino * \X/ Filbo @ Pyrzqxgl +1 408-476-4633 and XBBS +1 408-476-4945
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- Not quite a data sheet but here's the table:
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- 4.194304 or 1.048576 MHz
- time base
- Periodic Int SQW Output
- RS3 RS2 RS1 RS0 Rate Freq
- 0 0 0 0 None None
- 0 0 0 1 30.512 us 32.768 kHz
- 0 0 1 0 61.035 us 16.384 kHz
- 0 0 1 1 122.070 us 8.192 kHz
- 0 1 0 0 244.141 us 4.096 kHz
- 0 1 0 1 488.281 us 2.048 kHz
- 0 1 1 0 976.562 us 1.024 kHz
- 0 1 1 1 1.953125 ms 512 Hz
- 1 0 0 0 3.90625 ms 256 Hz
- 1 0 0 1 7.8125 ms 128 Hz
- 1 0 1 0 15.625 ms 64 Hz
- 1 0 1 1 31.25 ms 32 Hz
- 1 1 0 0 62.5 ms 16 Hz
- 1 1 0 1 125 ms 8 Hz
- 1 1 1 0 250 ms 4 Hz
- 1 1 1 1 500 ms 2 Hz
-