You might want to consider using a Philips RTC. They've got a network
of FAEs, Distribution FAEs, and their on-line support is pretty
reliable too.
--- In l..., "Sutton Mehaffey" wrote:
>
> By chance, has anyone interfaced the Epson RX8025 by I2C to any LPC
> chip? Or any MPU for that matter? The standard read method for I2C
> works very reliably for this chip, but there is a 'simplified read'
in
> the datasheet which requires fewer steps. I have not
been able to
get
> this method work very well at all. The chip never
sees a STOP and
> therefore hangs quite often. Perhaps there is a bug in the chip for
> this method and Epson and their FAEs have been no help at all.
>
> Sutton
>