Filtered detection plus propagated timing window for stabilizing

Details Filtered detection plus propagated timing window for stabilizing Filtered detection plus propagated timing window for stabilizing

1990-08-13

1992-08-18

Mis, David

Electrical transmission or interconnection systems

Nonlinear reactor systems

Parametrons

331 49, H03K 19003

Patent

active

051401975

ABSTRACT:
An adjunct chip, usable as a peripheral to a microprocessor, which detects power failure, and puts the microprocessor into a known state upon power down. In order to reliably and stably put the microprocessor into a known state, several clocks are generated after the reset signal. However, since the power supply is failing, it is possible that the crystal-controlled oscillator may already have become unreliable. Therefore, a simple logic circuit (a ring oscillator, in the presently preferred embodiment) is used to generate the needed additional clocks at power-down. In the presently preferred embodiment, the switch from crystal-controlled oscillator to ring oscillator is stabilized by using a nonlinear filter circuit (driven by both the ring oscillator and the crystal oscillator) to detect when the crystal oscillator actually begins to fail. A transmission gate is then disabled, and the state frozen for long enough to allow any changes to propagate through.

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patent: 4816776 (1989-03-01), Kessler

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