82801FB Datasheet, PDF (385/786 Pages) Intel Corporation – Intel I/O Controller Hub 6 (ICH6) Family

LPC Interface Bridge Registers (D31:F0)
10.6 Real Time Clock Registers (LPC I/F—D31:F0)
10.6.1 I/O Register Address Map (LPC I/F—D31:F0)
The RTC internal registers and RAM are organized as two banks of 128 bytes each, called the
standard and extended banks. The first 14 bytes of the standard bank contain the RTC time and date
information along with four registers, A–D, that are used for configuration of the RTC. The
extended bank contains a full 128 bytes of battery backed SRAM, and will be accessible even when
the RTC module is disabled (via the RTC configuration register). Registers A–D do not physically
exist in the RAM.
All data movement between the host processor and the real-time clock is done through registers
mapped to the standard I/O space. The register map appears in Table 10-6.
Table 10-6. RTC I/O Registers (LPC I/F—D31:F0)
I/O Locations
70h and 74h
71h and 75h
72h and 76h
73h and 77h
If U128E bit = 0
Also alias to 72h and 76h
Also alias to 73h and 77h
Function
Real-Time Clock (Standard RAM) Index Register
Real-Time Clock (Standard RAM) Target Register
Extended RAM Index Register (if enabled)
Extended RAM Target Register (if enabled)
NOTES:
1. I/O locations 70h and 71h are the standard legacy location for the real-time clock. The map for this bank is
shown in Table 10-7. Locations 72h and 73h are for accessing the extended RAM. The extended RAM
bank is also accessed using an indexed scheme. I/O address 72h is used as the address pointer and I/O
address 73h is used as the data register. Index addresses above 127h are not valid. If the extended RAM is
not needed, it may be disabled.
2. Software must preserve the value of bit 7 at I/O addresses 70h and 74h. When writing to this address,
software must first read the value, and then write the same value for bit 7 during the sequential address
write. Note that port 70h is not directly readable. The only way to read this register is through Alt Access
mode. Although RTC Index bits 6:0 are readable from port 74h, bit 7 will always return 0. If the NMI# enable
is not changed during normal operation, software can alternatively read this bit once and then retain the
value for all subsequent writes to port 70h.
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