Serial RTCs

Like ST's TIMEKEEPER® NVRAMs,Serial RTCs keep track of day-date-time, even in the absence of power. Instead of the standard asynchronous parallel SRAM interface, Serial RTCs use a serial bus. Our devices are available in two industry standard serial interfaces: I²C (Inter-Integrated Circuit) and SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface).

• Serial RTC Battery Life Calculator
• Clock Calibration Calculator
• Serial Real-Time Clock Product Selector

ZEROPOWER® NVRAM

STMicroelectronicsZEROPOWER products integrate low power SRAMs with a power-fail control circuit and a long-life lithium battery. The power-fail circuit monitors the external power supply voltage. If this falls below a specific threshold it automatically write-protects the SRAM and switches the standby power supply to the internal lithium battery. The advantage is long term data retention with fast READ/WRITE times and unlimited READ/WRITE cycles of standard SRAMs.

• ZEROPOWER Battery Life Data
• ZEROPOWER NVRAM Home

TIMEKEEPER® NVRAM

STMicroelectronicsTIMEKEEPER products add a quartz crystal, very low power oscillator and a clock/calendar circuit to provide real-time data. Advanced TIMEKEEPERs include additional features such as programmable alarms, watchdog timers, system reset outputs and battery low warning flags

• TIMEKEEPER Battery Life Data
• Clock Calibration Calculator
• TIMEKEEPER NVRAM Home

TIMEKEEPER Supervisors 

TIMEKEEPER Supervisors convert standard low-power SRAM devices into non-volatile memory. They provide control and battery backup from 1Mbit to 16Mbit external low power SRAM with up to 10 years of data retention, depending on the Supervisor, battery and SRAM type selected.

• Supervisor Data Retention Calculation
• TIMEKEEPER Supervisors

More Information

• Application Note AN1012 "Predicting the battery life and data retention period of NVRAMs and serial RTCs"