
2002 Microchip Technology Inc.
Preliminary
DS30485A-page 23
PIC18FXX39
3.0
RESET
The PIC18FXX39 differentiates between various kinds
of RESET:
a)
Power-on Reset (POR)
b)
MCLR Reset during normal operation
c)
MCLR Reset during SLEEP
d)
Watchdog Timer (WDT) Reset (during normal
operation)
e)
Programmable Brown-out Reset (BOR)
f)
RESET
Instruction
g)
Stack Full Reset
h)
Stack Underflow Reset
Most registers are unaffected by a RESET. Their status
is unknown on POR and unchanged by all other
RESETS. The other registers are forced to a “RESET
state” on Power-on Reset, MCLR, WDT Reset, Brown-
out Reset, MCLR Reset during SLEEP and by the
RESET
instruction.
Most registers are not affected by a WDT wake-up,
since this is viewed as the resumption of normal oper-
ation. Status bits from the RCON register, RI, TO, PD,
POR and BOR, are set or cleared differently in different
RESET situations, as indicated in
Table 3-2. These bits
are used in software to determine the nature of the
RESET. See
Table 3-3 for a full description of the
RESET states of all registers.
A simplified block diagram of the On-Chip Reset Circuit
The Enhanced MCU devices have a MCLR noise filter
in the MCLR Reset path. The filter will detect and
ignore small pulses.
The MCLR pin is not driven low by any internal
RESETS, including the WDT.
FIGURE 3-1:
SIMPLIFIED BLOCK DIAGRAM OF ON-CHIP RESET CIRCUIT
S
R
Q
External Reset
MCLR
VDD
OSC1
WDT
Module
VDD Rise
Detect
OST/PWRT
On-chip
RC OSC(1)
WDT
Time-out
Power-on Reset
OST
10-bit Ripple Counter
PWRT
Chip_Reset
10-bit Ripple Counter
Reset
Enable OST(2)
Enable PWRT
SLEEP
Note 1: This is a separate oscillator from the RC oscillator of the CLKI pin.
Brown-out
Reset
BOREN
RESET
Instruction
Stack
Pointer
Stack Full/Underflow Reset