11. RTC¶
11.1. Introduction¶
AIO-3568J development BOARD uses HYM8563 as RTC(Real Time Clock), HYM8563 is a low power CMOS real-time Clock/calendar chip, it provides a programmable Clock output, an interrupt Output and a power down detector, all addresses and data are passed serially through the I2C bus interface.The maximum bus speed is 400Kbits/s, after each read and write data, the embedded word address register will automatically increment
Timing can be based on 32.768kHz crystals in seconds, minutes, hours, weeks, days, months and years
Wide working voltage range :1.0~5.5V
Low resting current: Typical 0.25μA(VDD =3.0V, TA =25°C)
Internal integrated oscillating capacitor
drain open circuit interrupt pin
11.2. RTC驱动¶
11.3. Interface usage¶
Linux provides three user-space call interfaces. The corresponding path in the AIO-3568J development board is:
SYSFS Interface :
/sys/class/rtc/rtc0/PROCFS Interface :
/proc/driver/rtcIOCTL Interface :
/dev/rtc0
11.3.1. SYSFS Interface¶
You can directly use the interface below cat and echo operations /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/.
For example, check the date and time of the current RTC:
# cat /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/date
2013-01-18
# cat /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/time
09:36:10
Set the startup time, such as starting up after 120 seconds:
#Start the machine regularly after 120 seconds
echo +120 > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
# View boot time
cat /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
#To turn it off
reboot -p
11.3.2. PROCFS Interface¶
Print RTC related information:
# cat /proc/driver/rtc
rtc_time : 09:34:59
rtc_date : 2013-01-18
alrm_time : 08:52:45
alrm_date : 2013-01-18
alarm_IRQ : no
alrm_pending : no
update IRQ enabled : no
periodic IRQ enabled : no
periodic IRQ frequency : 1
max user IRQ frequency : 64
24hr : yes
11.3.3. IOCTL Interface¶
You can use ioctl to control /dev/rtc0.
Please refer to the document kernel/Documentation/rtc.txt for detailed instructions.