Even if you’ve read lots of articles on watchdog timers (WDTs), you may still be lacking a vital piece of information. Even if you’ve read lots of articles on watchdog timers (WDTs), you may still be ...

Microcontrollers usually requirea watchdog timer to bring highcurrents or high voltages into a safecondition. Many microcontrollers havebuilt-in watchdog timers for this purpose.You may, however, ...

Seiko Instruments Inc. (SII) announced the release of the new S-19400/19401 series watchdog timer with reset function featuring selectable window or timeout modes; industry leading low current ...

With so many cell phones, PDAs, and MP3 players using touch-sensitive keypads, wheels, and screens for user input, regular mechanical pushbuttons are beginning to seem outdated. Even so, mechanical ...

Vendors and researchers are trying some new tricks with watchdog timers. Here are some notable attempts to improve the old dog. Nearly a decade ago I wrote a series of three articles about watchdog ...

An automobile’s fuel-oxygen ratio determines performance as well as its exhaust toxicity, making it essential for vehicle designers to get this mixture right and keep it right over time. A proper ...

[Rajendra Bhatt] wrote in to share the latest in a series of PIC tutorials, which covers the microcontroller’s Sleep mode – a very useful tool for limiting current consumption in battery-powered ...

Expanding the Analog EEPROM AE2 product line are seven microcontroller supervisors that integrate 2 Kb of EEPROM. Supervisor-threshold voltages are available at 4.5V, 4.25V, 4V, 3V, 2.85V, and 2.55V.