Hi Is it possible to use the ADC input to sense the supply voltage and automatically drive a spare output connected across the reset pin to zero when the supply sank to say 4 volts and thus act as a brownout detector? If you had a diode to a big enough capacitor for the microcontroller supply, the voltage would only fade slowly and I would think you would only need to poll the adc every half second or so. You might have to enable this only after the ADC was initialised and stable after startup. Ted
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Brownout - will this idea work?
2006-01-14 by Ted Smith