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CAT1026, CAT1027
Dual Voltage Supervisory Circuits with I2C Serial 2k-bit CMOS EEPROM
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FEATURES
■ Precision VCC power supply voltage monitor
— 5V, 3.3 V and 3 V systems
■ Low power CMOS technology
■ 16-Byte page write buffer
— Five threshold voltage options
■ Built-in inadvertent write protection
■ 1,000,000 Program/Erase cycles
■ Manual reset capability
■ Additional voltage monitoring
— Externally adjustable down to 1.25 V
■ Watchdog timer (CAT1027 only)
■ Active high or low reset
— Valid reset guaranteed to VCC = 1 V
■ 400 kHz I2C bus
■ 100 year data retention
■ 8-pin DIP, SOIC, TSSOP, MSOP or TDFN
(3 x 3 mm foot-print) packages
— TDFN max height is 0.8mm
■ Industrial and extended temperature ranges
■ 3.0 V to 5.5 V operation
DESCRIPTION
The CAT1026 and CAT1027 are complete memory and used as an input for push-button manual reset capability.
supervisorysolutionsformicrocontroller-basedsystems.
The CAT1026 and CAT1027 provide an auxiliary voltage
A 2k-bit serial EEPROM memory and a system power
sensor input, VSENSE, which is used to monitor a second
supervisor with brown-out protection are integrated
system supply. The auxiliary high impedance comparator
together in low power CMOS technology. Memory
drives the open drain output, VLOW, whenever the sense
interface is via a 400kHz I2C bus.
voltage is below 1.25V threshold.
The CAT1026 and CAT1027 provide a precision VCC
TheCAT1027isdesignedwitha1.6secondwatchdogtimer
sense circuit with five reset threshold voltage options
circuit that resets a system to a known state if software or a
that support 5V, 3.3V and 3V systems. The power
hardware glitch halts or “hangs” the system. The CAT1027
supply monitor and reset circuit protects memory and
features a watchdog timer interrupt input, WDI.
systems controllers during power up/down and against
brownout conditions. If power supply voltages are out of
The on-chip 2k-bit EEPROM memory features a 16-byte
tolerance reset signals become active preventing the
page. In addition, hardware data protection is provided by a
system microcontroller, ASIC, or peripherals from
VCC sense circuit that prevents writes to memory whenever
operating.
VCC falls below the reset threshold or until VCC reaches the
reset threshold during power up.
The CAT1026 features two open drain reset outputs:
one (RESET) drives high and the other (RESET) drives
low whenever VCC falls below the threshold. Reset
Available packages include an 8-pin DIP, 8-pin SOIC, 8-
pin TSSOP, 8-pin TDFN and 8-pin MSOP. The TDFN
outputs become inactive typically 200 ms after the
package thickness is 0.8mm maximum. TDFN footprint is
supply voltage exceeds the reset threshold value. With
3x3mm.
both active high and low reset signals, interface to
microcontrollers and other ICs is simple. CAT1027 has
onlyaRESET output. Inaddition, theRESET pincanbe
© 2004 by Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc.
Doc No. 3010, Rev. K
Characteristics subject to change without notice