Real-time clocks (RTCs) were never eye-catching components in systems. Indeed, many engineers don’t understand why an RTC is needed. They might think it’s a very simple device that just keeps track of ...

In modern multimedia systems, maintaining an RTC (real-time clock) is an important task. An RTC supports displaying the play time on a media player and the call details in a video phone. One way to ...

Makers, developers and hobbyists that enjoy building projects using the awesome Raspberry Pi single board mini PC, might be interested in a new accessory board that has been unveiled by Element 14 ...

When it comes to measuring time on microcontrollers, there’s plenty of ways to go about things. For most quick and dirty purposes, such as debounce delays or other wait states, merely counting away a ...

Raspberry Pi enthusiasts may be interested in a new open source USB Raspberry Pi RTC offering a MCP2221 USB-I2C Converter, DS3231 High-Precision RTC Chip, TCXO, integrated temperature sensor as well ...

When developing code to operate a real-time clock (RTC), it is often beneficial to understand how the clock core operating logic has been defined. We all have a fundamental comprehension of how a ...

[CoreWeaver] creates an alarm clock that includes features one might expect in such a project, including an FM radio, snooze button inputs and a display, but goes beyond the basic functionality to ...

The IST-RTC02ANA Analog IP is an auxiliary block for the low-cost, extremely accurate real-time clock (RTC) application. It embeds low power LDO, 32K ...

NetTimeLogic’s RTC Master Clock is a full hardware (FPGA) only implementation of a synchronization core allowing to read and write a I2C Realtime Cloc ...

Last week, a bug was discovered in Windows 8 that affects the real-time clock while overclocking, causing inaccurate benchmark results. This discovery prompted popular overclocking leaderboards site ...