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11/23/10 18:07
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#179583 - What is approx about 32.768kHz being 2^15 ticks/s?
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Raghunathan said:
So once every 2^15 number of bits I will clock 1 sec approx.

Approx?

32.768kHz is 2^15 Hz.

Once this basic unit is reached, then I just have to intilaize counters to roll over at 60, 60, 24 etc to display HH:MM:SS.

In short I just have a 2^47 bit up-count timer

No. You have a 47-bit up-count timer. A 2^47 bit up counter would be truly huge. You would need 141 One-terabyte disks to store a single such timestamp ;)

There are lots of code available that converts a unix epoch into year, month, day, hour, minute, second without introducing a large number of small, constantly overflowing, software counters.


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TopicAuthorDate
RTC of the C8051F410 of Silabs            01/01/70 00:00      
   this should help            01/01/70 00:00      
      UNIX time            01/01/70 00:00      
         Back to basics?            01/01/70 00:00      
            What is approx about 32.768kHz being 2^15 ticks/s?            01/01/70 00:00      
               Lots of code available            01/01/70 00:00      
               Thats huge indeed !            01/01/70 00:00      
                  32.768kHz            01/01/70 00:00      
                     Normally best solution without radio receiver            01/01/70 00:00      
                        which tolerance would you prefer, and why?? :)            01/01/70 00:00      

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