Menno J Houtman wrote:
>
> Hi everyone...
>
> I'm currently trying to get a PCF8583 realtime clock running and are having
> some difficulty. I use a PIC16C84 to emulate the I2C bus. There is nothing
> wrong with the I2C procedures since I also use them to access other I2C
> devices on the same bus. I want the clock to give me an interrupt every 6
> minutes. It seems that whenever I read from the clock IC via I2C it doesn't
> accept any other commands. It just hangs!!!. Please, can you help me? Maybe
> there is something wrong with the datasheet and maybe I just missed
> something?

If it's the same animal as the 8593 then there are PICmicro code
routines at:
http://www.dontronics.com/rtc.html

There are 230K of routines there for RTC applications.

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