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Product data sheet Rev. 2 — 21 October 2013 79 of 150
NXP Semiconductors
LPC4370
32-bit ARM Cortex-M4/M0 microcontroller
7.22 Peripherals in the RTC power domain
7.22.1 RTC
The Real Time Clock (RTC) is a set of counters for measuring time when system power is
on, and optionally when it is off. It uses very little power when its registers are not being
accessed by the CPU, especially reduced power modes. The RTC is clocked by a
separate 32 kHz oscillator that produces a 1 Hz internal time reference. The RTC is
powered by its own power supply pin, VBAT.
7.22.1.1 Features
• Measures the passage of time to maintain a calendar and clock. Provides seconds,
minutes, hours, day of month, month, year, day of week, and day of year.
• Ultra-low power design to support battery powered systems. Uses power from the
CPU power supply when it is present.
• Dedicated battery power supply pin.
• RTC power supply is isolated from the rest of the chip.
• Calibration counter allows adjustment to better than 1 sec/day with 1 sec resolution.
• Periodic interrupts can be generated from increments of any field of the time registers.
• Alarm interrupt can be generated for a specific date/time.
7.22.2 Alarm timer
The alarm timer is a 16-bit timer and counts down at 1 kHz from a preset value generating
alarms in intervals of up to 1 min. The counter triggers a status bit when it reaches 0x00
and asserts an interrupt if enabled.
The alarm timer is part of the RTC power domain and can be battery powered.
7.23 System control
7.23.1 Configuration registers (CREG)
The following settings are controlled in the configuration register block:
• BOD trip settings
• Oscillator output
• DMA-to-peripheral muxing
• Ethernet mode
• Memory mapping
• Timer/USART inputs
• Enabling the USB controllers
In addition, the CREG block contains the part identification and part configuration
information.
7.23.2 System Control Unit (SCU)
The system control unit determines the function and electrical mode of the digital pins. By
default function 0 is selected for all pins with pull-up enabled. For pins that support a