CHAPTER 5 INITIALIZATION INTERFACE
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5.1.1 RTC reset
During power-on, set the RTCRST# pin as active. After waiting about 600 ms for the 32.768 kHz oscillator to begin
oscillating when the power supply is stable at 3.0 V or above, setting the RTCRST# pin as inactive causes the RTC
unit to begin counting. Then, the states of the MIPS16EN and CLKSEL(2:0) pins are read after one RTC cycle. Next,
the V
R
4181 asserts the POWERON pin and checks the state of the BATTINH/BATTINT# signal. If it is at high level,
the V
R
4181 asserts the MPOWER pin and activates the external agent’s DC/DC converter. After the stabilization time
period (about 350 ms) of the DC/DC converter, the V
R
4181 begins PLL oscillation and starts all clocks (a period of
about 16 ms following the start of PLL oscillation is required for stabilization of PLL oscillation).
An RTC reset does not save any of the status information and it completely initializes the processor’s internal
state. Since the DRAM is not switched to self refresh mode, the contents of DRAM after an RTC reset are not at all
guaranteed.
After a reset, the processor becomes the system bus master, which executes a Cold Reset exception sequence
and begins to access the reset exception vectors in the ROM space. Since only part of the internal status is reset
when a reset occurs in the V
R
4181, the processor should be completely initialized by software (see 5.4 Notes on
Initialization).
After power-on, the processor’s pin statuses are undefined since the RTCRST# is asserted, until the 32.768 kHz
clock oscillator starts oscillation. The pin statuses after oscillation starts are described in CHAPTER 2 PIN
FUNCTIONS in this document.
Figure 5-1. RTC Reset
L
16MasterClock
Note
Reset# (Internal)
ColdReset# (Internal)
MPOW ER (Output)
Undefined
POWER (Input)
RTCRST# (Input)
RTC (Internal,
32.768 kHz)
16 ms
> 600 ms
PLL (Internal)
> 32 ms
POWERON (Output)
350 ms
Stable oscillation
Stable oscillation
Undefined
Note MasterClock is the basic clock used in the CPU core. Its frequency is one forth of TClock frequency.