M41T11
Clock operation
3.1
Clock calibration
The M41T11 is driven by a quartz controlled oscillator with a nominal frequency of
32,768 Hz. The devices are tested not to exceed 35 ppm (parts per million) oscillator
frequency error at 25°C, which equates to about ±1.53 minutes per month. With the
calibration bits properly set, the accuracy of each M41T11 improves to better than ±2 ppm
at 25°C.
Most clock chips compensate for crystal frequency and temperature shift error with
cumbersome trim capacitors. The M41T11 design, however, employs periodic counter
correction. The calibration circuit adds or subtracts counts from the oscillator divider circuit
are blanked (subtracted, negative calibration) or split (added, positive calibration) depends
upon the value loaded into the five-bit calibration byte found in the control register. Adding
counts speeds the clock up, subtracting counts slows the clock down.
The calibration byte occupies the five lower order bits (D4-D0) in the control register (addr
7). This byte can be set to represent any value between 0 and 31 in binary form. Bit D5 is a
sign bit; '1' indicates positive calibration, '0' indicates negative calibration. Calibration occurs
within a 64 minute cycle. The first 62 minutes in the cycle may, once per minute, have one
second either shortened by 128 or lengthened by 256 oscillator cycles. If a binary '1' is
loaded into the register, only the first 2 minutes in the 64 minute cycle will be modified; if a
binary 6 is loaded, the first 12 will be affected, and so on.
Therefore, each calibration step has the effect of adding 512 or subtracting 256 oscillator
cycles for every 125,829,120 actual oscillator cycles, that is +4.068 or –2.034 ppm of
Table 3.
Register map(1)
1.
Keys:
S = SIGN bit
FT = FREQUENCY TEST bit
ST = STOP bit
OUT = Output level
X = Don’t care
CEB = Century enable bit
CB = Century bit
Address
Data
Function/range
BCD format
D7
D6
D5
D4
D3
D2
D1
D0
0
ST
10 seconds
Seconds
00-59
1
X
10 minutes
Minutes
00-59
2CEB(2)
2.
When CEB is set to '1', CB will toggle from '0' to '1' or from '1' to '0' every 100 years (dependent upon the
initial value set). When CEB is set to '0', CB will not toggle.When CEB is set to '1', CB will toggle from '0' to
'1' or from '1' to '0' every 100 years (dependent upon the initial value set). When CEB is set to '0', CB will
not toggle.
CB
10 hours
Hours
Century/hours 0-1/00-23
3
X
Day
01-07
4
X
10 date
Date
01-31
5
X
10 M.
Month
01-12
6
10 years
Years
Year
00-99
7
OUT
FT
S
Calibration
Control