Abracon’s Industry Leading 22nA Time Keeping Current Consumption Real Time Clock Maximizes Battery Life AB1815, AB1805, AB0815, AB0805

Abracon’s Industry Leading 22nA Time Keeping Current Consumption Real Time Clock Maximizes Battery Life

AB1815, AB1805, AB0815, AB0805

AUSTIN, Tx. (November 28, 2016) Abracon Holdings, LLC. (Abracon), a leading global manufacturer of passive & electromechanical timing, synchronization, power, connectivity and RF components announces a family of real time clock IC’s designed to maximize battery life and reduce overall battery requirements in wearables and Internet of Things applications. By reducing time-keeping current to an industry low of 22nA, this family of real time clocks enables years of operation from small coin cells or eliminates the need for super capacitors during short term hold-over requirements.

This family of RTC’s are highly integrated offering a variety of advanced time-keeping features that allow scalable current consumption from 14nA using internal RC mode up to 55nA when fully operating from an external 32.768kHz crystal. Advanced power management features such as a 1Ω power switch, VBAT switchover, system sleep manager for managing host processor wake/sleep states, external reset signal monitor, reset output generator, external interrupt monitor, programmable low battery detection threshold, and programmable analog voltage comparator.

For applications requiring long term holdover, the devices integrate a supercapacitor trickle charger with programmable charging current. Under short term hold-over of 20 minutes, the devices use a standard 22µF capacitor, eliminating the need for supercapacitors.

“Design engineers are under pressure to meet the size and battery life needs of new IoT, IIoT and wearable applications,” says Syed Raza, VP of Engineering with Abracon. “Considering that the real time clock is typically the only function that remains active 100% of the time, reduction in time-keeping current consumption translates directly into enhanced battery life or reduced battery size. Utilizing the lowest power RTC available can present a distinct head start when trying to address this design challenge.”

“Abracon’s strategic long term focus is to support end system designers with industry leading technology that addresses their most restrictive design challenges,” says Juan Conchas, Abracon’s Director of Marketing. “By significantly reducing time-keeping current consumption, this family of RTC’s is needed by the next generation of battery powered systems.”

These devices are available in a compact 3mm x 3mm 16-pin QFN, feature SPI or I2C interfaces and operate from -40°C to 85°C. They are available from stock through Abracon’s global distributors.

About Abracon Holdings, LLC
Founded in 1992, and headquartered in Irvine, California, Abracon is a leading global manufacturer of passive and electromechanical timing, synchronization, power, connectivity and RF solutions. Abracon offers a wide selection of quartz timing crystals and oscillators, MEMS oscillators, real time tlocks (RTC), Bluetooth modules, ceramic resonators, SAW filters and resonators, power and RF inductors, transformers, circuit protection components and RF antennas and wireless charging coils. The company is ISO9001-2015 certified with design & application engineering resources in California and Texas and sales offices in Texas, California, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Scotland, and Germany. Abracon’s products are offered through its global distribution network.

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