The bq4845 Real-Time Clock is a low-power microprocessor peripheral that integrates a time-of-day clock, a 100-year calendar, and a CPU supervisor in a 28-pin SOIC or DIP. The bq4845 is ideal for fax machines, copiers, industrial control systems, point-of-sale terminals, data loggers, and computers.

The bq4845 provides direct connections for a 32.768KHz quartz crystal and a 3V backup battery. Through the use of the conditional chip enable output (CE\_OUT) and battery voltage output (V_OUT) pins, the bq4845 can write-protect and make nonvolatile external SRAMs. The backup cell powers the real-time clock and maintains SRAM information in the absence of system voltage.

The bq4845 contains a temperature-compensated reference and comparator circuit that monitors the status of its voltage supply.