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Low Power µP Supervisor Circuits

ASM705 / 706 / 707 / 708

ASM813L

rev 1.2

July 2004

transitions at WDI will reset the watchdog timer and initiate a

new countdown sequence.

WDO will also become LOW and remain so, whenever the

threshold. There is no minimum pulse width for WDO as

there is for the RESET outputs. If WDI is floated, WDO

essentially acts as a low-power output indicator.

Application Information

no longer pulls down; it becomes indeterminate. To avoid the

possibility that stray charges build up and force RESET to the

wrong state, a pull-down resistor should be connected to the

RESET pin, thus draining such charges to ground and

holding RESET low. The resistor value is not critical. A 100k

Ω

resistor will pull RESET to ground without loading it.

Bi-directional Reset Pin Interfacing

The ASM705/6/7/8 can interface with µP/µC bi-directional

reset pins by connecting a 4.7k

Ω resistor in series with the

RESET output and the µP/µC bi-directional RESET pin.

the Power Fail circuitry. If a resistive divider is connected

from the voltage to be monitored to the Power Fail input

(PFI), the PFO will go LOW if the voltage at PFI goes below

1.25V reference. Should hysteresis be desired, connect a

resistor (equal to approximately 10 times the sum of the two

resistors in the divider) between the PFI and PFO pins. A

capacitor between PFI and GND will reduce circuit sensitivity

to input high-frequency noise. If it is desired to assert a

be connected to the MR.

Supply Voltage

BUF

Buffered

RESET

ASM70x

GND

GND

RESET

RESET

Input

µC or µP

4.7kΩ

Bi-directional I/O Pin

Figure 3: Bi-directional Reset Pin Interfacing

PFI

MR

PFO

ASM70X

RESET

GND

+5V

To

µP

WDI

WDO

RESET

RESET

Figure 2: Watchdog Timing