32khz

aaronik19 · Joined: 25 Apr 2011 Posts: 296

Dear all,

I am using a pic18f and i also intergave the ds3231 module to my pic to make an alarm clock which is working pretty good. On the other hand i would like to use the timer0 to make some seconds timer and on the ds3231 there is a pin of 32khz frequency out. Is it possible to interface this pin to pic t0osc port since t0osc requires two pins and the ds3231 has only one pin of 32khz? Or maybe another solution, is it possible to convert the 32khz to 1hz and dedicate INT pin only to this 1hz?

Ttelmah · Joined: 11 Mar 2010 Posts: 19215

Use the INT/SQW pin instead.
This can be programed to be a square wave pulse (The 'SQW'), at 1Hz, 1.024KHz, 4.096KHz, or 8.192KHz. Just feed this to the INT pin.

aaronik19 · Joined: 25 Apr 2011 Posts: 296

Sorry i forgot to mention it. I am using the sqw 1hz as Interrupt when the alarm is reached.

temtronic · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2020 3:17 pm

You should be able to connect it to the T0CKI pin and have timer0 count the pulses...
You'll need to read the 'timer0' chapter of whatever PIC you're using, as some conditions may have to be met.

Ttelmah · Joined: 11 Mar 2010 Posts: 19215

OK. If you are already using the INT output for an alarm, then
yes, you can count the 32K output.
It's always worth telling us the chip involved. PIC18, covers many
hundreds of different chips and there are 'detail' differences in what they
can actually do. The programming needed differs for different chips.

If you look at a basic PIC18 like the F452, the Timer0, input selection
has a simple option T0_EXT_L_TO_H which has it counting the low to high
transitions on T0CKI. However later chips that offer oscillators have
options like: