SOT23, Low-Power µP Supervisory Circuits
with Battery Backup and Chip-Enable Gating
watchdog is set low in the beginning of the program,
set high at the beginning of every subroutine or loop,
and set low again when the program returns to the
beginning. If the program should hang in any subrou-
tine, the problem would be quickly corrected.
Replacing the Backup Battery
When VCC is above VTH, the backup power source can
be removed without danger of triggering a reset pulse.
The device does not enter battery-backup mode when
VCC stays above the reset threshold voltage.
Negative-Going VCC Transients
These supervisors are relatively immune to short-dura-
tion, negative-going VCC transients. Resetting the µP
when VCC experiences only small glitches is usually not
desirable.
The Typical Operating Characteristics section has a
Maximum Transient Duration vs. Reset Threshold
Overdrive graph for which reset is not asserted. The
graph was produced using negative-going VCC pulses,
starting at VCC and ending below the reset threshold by
the magnitude indicated (reset threshold overdrive).
The graph shows the maximum pulse width that a neg-
ative-going VCC transient can typically have without
triggering a reset pulse. As the amplitude of the tran-
sient increases (i.e., goes further below the reset
threshold), the maximum allowable pulse width
decreases. Typically, a VCC transient that goes 100mV
below the reset threshold and lasts for 30µs will not trig-
ger a reset pulse.
A 0.1µF bypass capacitor mounted close to the VCC
pin provides additional transient immunity.
+2.4V TO +5.5V
0.1µF
START
VCC BATT ON
OUT
BATT CE OUT
CE
MAX6367
CE IN
ADDRESS
DECODE
GND
RESET
CMOS RAM
A0–A15
µP
RESET
Figure 3. MAX6367 BATT ON Driving an External Pass
Transistor
SET
WDI
LOW
SUBROUTINE
OR PROGRAM LOOP
SET WDI
HIGH
RETURN
END
Figure 4. Watchdog Flow Diagram
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