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ATmega161(L)
1228B–09/01
Note:
1. The BOD-LEVEL fuse can be used to select start-up times even if the brown-out
detection is disabled (by leaving the BODEN fuse unprogrammed).
The frequency of the watchdog oscillator is voltage-dependent as shown in the Electri-
cal Characteristics section. The device is shipped with CKSEL = 010.
Power-on Reset
A Power-on Reset (POR) pulse is generated by an On-chip detection circuit. The detec-
tion level is nominally 1.4V (rising V
CC
). The POR is activated whenever V
CC
is below
the detection level. The POR circuit can be used to trigger the start-up reset, as well as
detect a failure in supply voltage.
A Power-on Reset (POR) circuit ensures that the device is reset from Power-on. Reach-
ing the Power-on Reset threshold voltage invokes a delay counter, which determines
the delay, for which the device is kept in RESET after V
CC
rise. The time-out period of
the delay counter can be defined by the user through the CKSEL fuses. The eight differ-
ent selections for the delay period are presented in Table 4. The RESET signal is
activated again, without any delay, when the V
CC
decreases below detection level.
Figure 25.
MCU Start-up, RESET Tied to V
CC
Table 5.
Number of Watchdog Oscillator Cycles
BODLEVEL
Time-out
Number of Cycles
Unprogrammed
4.2 ms (at V
CC
= 2.7V)
1K
Unprogrammed
67 ms (at V
CC
= 2.7V)
16K
Programmed
5.8 ms (at V
CC
= 4.0V)
4K
Programmed
92 ms (at V
CC
= 4.0V)
64K
VCC
RESET
TIME-OUT
INTERNAL
RESET
t
TOUT
V
POT
V
RST