ABRACON AB1805-T3

The ABRACON AB18X5 Real-Time Clock with Power Management family provides a groundbreaking combination of ultra-low power coupled with a highly sophisticated feature set. With power requirements significantly lower than any other industry RTC (as low as 14 nA), these are the first semiconductors based on innovative SPOTTM (Subthreshold Power Optimized Technology) CMOS platform. The AB18X5 includes on-chip oscillators to provide minimum power consumption, full RTC functions including battery backup and programmable counters and alarms for timer and watchdog functions, and either an I2C or SPI serial interface for communication with a host controller. An integrated power switch and a sophisticated system sleep manager with counter, timer, alarm, and interrupt capabilities allows the AB18X5 to be used as a supervisory component in a host microcontroller based system.

• Ultra-low supply current (all at 3V):
  • 14 nA with RC oscillator
  • 22 nA with RC oscillator and Autocalibration
  • 55 nA with crystal oscillator
• Baseline timekeeping features:
  • 32.768 kHz crystal oscillator with integrated load capacitor/resistor
  • Counters for hundredths, seconds, minutes, hours, date, month, year, century, and weekday
  • Alarm capability on all counters
  • Programmable output clock generation (32.768 kHz to 1 year)
  • Countdown timer with repeat function
  • Automatic leap year calculation
• Advanced timekeeping features:
  • Integrated power optimized RC oscillator
  • Advanced crystal calibration to ± 2 ppm
  • Advanced RC calibration to ± 16 ppm
  • Automatic calibration of RC oscillator to crystal oscillator
  • Watchdog timer with hardware reset
  • 256 bytes of general purpose RAM
• Power management features:
  • Integrated ~1Ω power switch for off-chip components such as a host MCU
  • System sleep manager for managing host processor wake/sleep states
  • External reset signal monitor
  • Reset output generator
  • Supercapacitor trickle charger with programmable charging current
  • Automatic switchover to VBAT
  • External interrupt monitor
  • Programmable low battery detection threshold
  • Programmable analog voltage comparator
• I2C (up to 400 kHz) and 3-wire or 4-wire SPI (up to 2 MHz) serial interfaces available
• Operating voltage 1.5–3.6 V
• Clock and RAM retention voltage 1.5 - 3.6 V
• Operating temperature -40 to 85 °C
• All inputs include Schmitt Triggers
• 3x3 mm QFN-16 package

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