Hi,
add Ricoh, too. The RS5C313 does it fine, and cheap.
Imre


On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Donald L Burdette wrote:

> Several others make real time clock chips.  Check out Epson, Dallas
> (www.dalsemi.com) and Seiko.
>
> Dallas in particular makes a wide variety of different chips.  Interfaces
> for parallel, IIC, 1-Wire, SPI, etc.  They also have some sub-microamp
> parts.  The part I buy and use is under $2.00, so it's cheaper than the
> PIC, lower power, more accurate, smaller.
>
> Why use a dedicated PIC?
>
>                                 Don
>
>