??? 12/11/06 06:19 Modified: 12/11/06 06:23 Read: times |
#129269 - what about bidirectional reset? Responding to: ???'s previous message |
How, then, should one generate a bidirectional reset, for those MCU's that both receive and drive the reset pin, as I mentioned earlier with reference to the watchdog timer? Nearly all feedback-based schemes want to generate a combinatorial loop, which forms a latch.
How can one determine that the MCU's oscillator is stabile? Maybe one should rule out using a crystal, and use a complete oscillator instead. Those have spec's that tell us how long from Vcc to stabile output. One could, after all, count, say, 4K (e.g. with 74HC4040) counts from the oscillator and then release the RESET. If one holds the MCU in reset, it won't generate any output signals, aside, perhaps, from RESET. RESET out won't help either. RE |