Resets

July 31, 2008

Levels of Reset

A few years ago in my search for hardware/firmware best practices, I came across a series of “Firmware Friendly” articles written by David Fechser of LSI Logic. (See Related Links on my website.) In one of his articles, “Firmware-friendly reset design,” Fechser discusses three levels of hardware reset. The following […]
August 30, 2008

More on Resets

Since the last issue, I had an interesting email discussion regarding resets with one of my readers, Jay Dowling. Jay comes from a background of designing safety-critical devices for use in harsh environments and has a different perspective on resets. During our discussion, Jay brought up a useful distinction between […]