On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:13:53 EDT, you wrote: >In a message dated 7/23/02 14:19:19 Eastern Daylight Time, >fredrik.axtelius@TELIA.COM writes: > > >> Can someone please recomend a RTC chip with some RAM. >> I have never used one and have no idea whats availible. >> >> It should be easy to interface with a PIC16F87x and have atleast 1k of= RAM. >> Battery backedup would be nice to... >> >> > >Real time clocks don't need RAM. They output the time on a shiftout. = Look >at the DS1302 at www.parallaxinc.com. ..but you might want some RAM which is battery-backed, and the RTC is as good a place as any to put it.....! -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.