MCP120/130
2.0
2.1
APPLICATIONS INFORMATION
The Need for Supervisory Circuits
5V
SUPPLY VOLTAGE
V
TRIP
MAX
V
TRIP
MIN
(V
TRIP
MIN
-
V
DD
)
Transient
Duration
For many of today鈥檚 microcontroller applications, care
must be taken to prevent low power conditions that can
cause many different system problems. The most com-
mon causes are brown-out conditions where the sys-
tem supply drops below the operating level momentar-
ily, and the second, is when a slowly decaying power
supply causes the microcontroller to begin executing
instructions without enough voltage to sustain SRAM
and producing indeterminate results.
V
DD
V
DD
Microcontroller
MCP120
V
SS
RST
Bypass
Capacitor
V
DD
0
0
TIME
10
T
A
= +25擄C
TRANSIENT DURATION (
碌
S
)
MCLR
or
RESET
8
6
Transients above the
curve will cause a reset
4
V
SS
2
Figure 2-1:
Typical Application
0
Transients below
the curve will NOT
cause a reset
0
1
2
3
V
TRIP
- V
DD
(V)
4
5
2.2
Negative Going V
DD
Transients
Figure 2-2:
Typical Transient Response
Many system designers implementing POR circuits are
concerned about the minimum pulse width required to
cause a reset. Figure 2-2 shows typical transient
voltage below the trip point (V
TRIP
- V
DD
) vs. transient
duration. It shows that the farther below the trip point
the transient pulse goes, the duration of the pulse
required to cause a reset gets shorter. A 0.1
碌F
bypass
cap mounted as close as possible to the V
DD
pin pro-
vides additional transient immunity.
DS11184D-page 4
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2001 Microchip Technology Inc.
                         
                        
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