| ??? 06/14/05 13:17 Read: times |
#94883 - Has been discussed before Responding to: ???'s previous message |
This has been discussed before (I'm too lazy to dig out the item!). I dare say you'll find the voltage accuracy of the external supervisors a little bit better than the on chip micro ones. Depends on the criticality of your application. Obviously having a micro with these built in features is normally an advantage (when the actual silicon works as it should) and can save some board space and a few $$. In a safety critical application, you might want to use an external supervisor to add some reliability factor. Atmel calls it a hardware watchdog simply because they have logic that performs the function - separate to the logic of the micro as you would for an external watchdog. As to why you would use a tantalum capacitor for the RC reset as compared to a ceramic or film capacitor - I'll leave that to debate. |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| AT89C51RD2 without supervisor IC | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| RC is never good | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| watchdog ad absurdum | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| and uses a bunch of pins | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| wd | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| paranoia revisited - wd 2 | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| when the full story | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| WD3 | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| if code run astray | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Has been discussed before | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| External ones are better | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| External ones are better in one respect | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Yes, but... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Nope, never use an external when | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Exactly! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Combined Watchdogs | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| External better in another respect | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I'm using the internal and works well | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| works well - how do you know | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| who should test it? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| nobody | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| the manufacturer should | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Design Verification | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
one off | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| The meaning of "well" | 01/01/70 00:00 |