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Edwin Blink

Edwin Blink

The DALLAS clock was a clock unit that could be read by MasterDOS and B-DOS in place of the SamBus Clock.

See the DALLAS Clock Page for more details, quote as follows:

I wanted to add a realtime clock to my SAM other then the hard to get realtime clock chip used in the sambus and discovered the realtime clock chip from dallas semiconductors which has two big advantages: All clock components inclusive a backup battery are in a single package so implementation is easy, and this clock can be found on PC motherboards which makes it easy to get.

The Dallas clock can operate in INTEL mode and MOTOROLA mode. In order to reduce the chip count I choose to use the MOTOROLA
mode.

My original design of the DALLAS clock was based on integration with the SAM’s Comms interface (In which I already build my EDDAC interface). But to make it function as a stand alone interface a 74LS138 address decoder was added.