Datasheet

2010-2012 Microchip Technology Inc. DS41412F-page 59
PIC18(L)F2X/4XK22
4.0 RESET
The PIC18(L)F2X/4XK22 devices differentiate between
various kinds of Reset:
a) Power-on Reset (POR)
b) MCLR
Reset during normal operation
c) MCLR Reset during power-managed modes
d) Watchdog Timer (WDT) Reset (during
execution)
e) Programmable Brown-out Reset (BOR)
f) RESET Instruction
g) Stack Full Reset
h) Stack Underflow Reset
This section discusses Resets generated by MCLR
,
POR and BOR and covers the operation of the various
start-up timers. Stack Reset events are covered in
Section 5.2.0.1 “Stack Full and Underflow Resets”.
WDT Resets are covered in Section 24.3 “Watchdog
Timer (WDT)”.
A simplified block diagram of the On-Chip Reset Circuit
is shown in Figure 4-1.
4.1 RCON Register
Device Reset events are tracked through the RCON
register (Register 4-1). The lower five bits of the
register indicate that a specific Reset event has
occurred. In most cases, these bits can only be cleared
by the event and must be set by the application after
the event. The state of these flag bits, taken together,
can be read to indicate the type of Reset that just
occurred. This is described in more detail in
Section 4.7 “Reset State of Registers”.
The RCON register also has control bits for setting
interrupt priority (IPEN) and software control of the
BOR (SBOREN). Interrupt priority is discussed in
Section 9.0 “Interrupts”. BOR is covered in
Section 4.5 “Brown-out Reset (BOR)”.
FIGURE 4-1: SIMPLIFIED BLOCK DIAGRAM OF ON-CHIP RESET CIRCUIT
External Reset
MCLR
VDD
OSC1
WDT
Time-out
V
DD
Detect
OST/PWRT
LFINTOSC
POR
OST
(2)
10-bit Ripple Counter
PWRT
(2)
11-bit Ripple Counter
Enable OST
(1)
Enable PWRT
Note 1: See Table 4-2 for time-out situations.
2: PWRT and OST counters are reset by POR and BOR. See Sections 4.4 and 4.5.
Brown-out
Reset
BOREN
RESET
Instruction
Stack
Pointer
Stack Full/Underflow Reset
Sleep
( )_IDLE
1024 Cycles
65.5 ms
32 s
MCLRE
S
R
Q
Chip_Reset