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3. Reduce EMI Emission
Because of on-chip Flash EPROM, when a program is running in internal ROM space, the ALE will be
unused. The transition of ALE will cause noise, so it can be turned off to reduce the EMI emission if it
is useless. Turning off the ALE signal transition only requires setting the bit 0 of the AUXR SFR, which
is located at 08Eh. When ALE is turned off, it will be reactivated when the program accesses external
ROM/RAM data or jumps to execute an external ROM code. The ALE signal will turn off again after it
has been completely accessed or the program returns to internal ROM code space. The AO bit in the
AUXR register, when set, disables the ALE output. In order to reduce EMI emission from oscillation
circuitry, W78E51B allows user to diminish the gain of on-chip oscillator amplifiers by using
programmer to clear the B7 bit of security register. Once B7 is set to 0, a half of gain will be decreased.
Care must be taken if user attempts to diminish the gain of oscillator amplifier, reducing a half of gain
may effect to external crystal operating improperly at high frequency above 24 MHz. The value of R
and C1, C2 may need adjustment while running at lower gain.
***AUXR - Auxiliary register (8EH)
- - - - - - - AO
AO: Turn off ALE output.
4. Power-off Flag
***PCON - Power control (87H)
- - - POF GF1 GF0 PD IDL
POF: Power off flag. Bit is set by hardware when power on reset. It can be cleared by software
to determine chip reset is a warm boot or cold boot.
GF1, GF0: These two bits are general-purpose flag bits for the user.
PD: Power down mode bit. Set it to enter power down mode.
IDL: Idle mode bit. Set it to enter idle mode.
The power-off flag is located at PCON.4. This bit is set when VDD has been applied to the part. It can
be used to determine if a reset is a warm boot or a cold boot if it is subsequently reset by software.
Watchdog Timer
The Watchdog timer is a free-running timer which can be programmed by the user to serve as a
system monitor, a time-base generator or an event timer. It is basically a set of dividers that divide the
system clock. The divider output is selectable and determines the time-out interval. When the time-out
occurs a system reset can also be caused if it is enabled. The main use of the Watchdog timer is as a
system monitor. This is important in real-time control applications. In case of power glitches or electro-
magnetic interference, the processor may begin to execute errant code. If this is left unchecked the
entire system may crash. The watchdog time-out selection will result in different time-out values
depending on the clock speed. The Watchdog timer will de disabled on reset. In general, software
should restart the Watchdog timer to put it into a known state. The control bits that support the
Watchdog timer are discussed below.