[Coco] Battery-Backed RTCs for CoCo?
RETRO Innovations
go4retro at go4retro.com
Fri Nov 30 20:40:30 EST 2018
On 11/30/2018 5:51 PM, Dave Philipsen wrote:
> Actually we have a NitrOS9 driver for the newer (and cheaper) DS3231
> chip that is so prevalent on many RTC boards available on eBay. It is
> currently used on the CoCo3FPGA. I believe that the general register
> architecture of the Dallas Semi chips are all pretty much the same.
> It's just that the older ones were accessed in a slightly different
> way before the advent of I2C and SPI.
Hmm, that one is still highly expensive, givent eh otehr I2C options on
digikey. And, the 400KHz max clock is a bummer, as that means I cannot
interface it with the CoCo bus directly...
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