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There are plenty of reasons to have a RTC beyond clocking/wakeup for a battery backup, in the case of the MSP432 this includes wakeup from LPM3/3.5 and calendar/alarm functionality. A RTC peripheral is included on the MSP432P401R but a battery backup system is not, need for external components is dependent on your desired application.
