Rev. 1.71
46
April 11, 2017
Rev. 1.71
47
April 11, 2017
HT66F002/HT66F0025/HT66F003/HT66F004
Cost-Effective A/D Flash MCU with EEPROM
HT66F002/HT66F0025/HT66F003/HT66F004
Cost-Effective A/D Flash MCU with EEPROM
Standby Current Considerations
As the main reason for entering the SLEEP or IDLE Mode is to keep the current consumption of
the devices to as low a value as possible, perhaps only in the order of several micro-amps except
in the IDLE1 Mode, there are other considerations which must also be taken into account by the
circuit designer if the power consumption is to be minimised. Special attention must be made to
the I/O pins on the device. All high-impedance input pins must be connected to either a fixed high
or low level as any floating input pins could create internal oscillations and result in increased
current consumption. This also applies to devices which have different package types, as there may
be unbonbed pins. These must either be setup as outputs or if setup as inputs must have pull-high
resistors connected.
Care must also be taken with the loads, which are connected to I/O pins, which are setup as
outputs. These should be placed in a condition in which minimum current is drawn or connected
only to external circuits that do not draw current, such as other CMOS inputs. In the IDLE1 Mode
the system oscillator is on, if the system oscillator is from the high speed system oscillator, the
additional standby current will also be perhaps in the order of several hundred micro-amps.
Wake-up
After the system enters the SLEEP or IDLE Mode, it can be woken up from one of various sources
listed as follows:
• An external reset
• An external falling edge on Port A
• A system interrupt
• A WDT overflow
If the system is woken up by an external reset, the device will experience a full system reset,
however,
I
f these devices
are
woken up by a WDT overflow, a Watchdog Timer reset will be
initiated. Although both of these wake-up methods will initiate a reset operation, the actual source
of the wake-up can be determined by examining the TO and PDF flags. The PDF flag is cleared by a
system power-up or executing the clear Watchdog Timer instructions and is set when executing the
“HALT” instruction. The TO flag is set if a WDT time-out occurs, and causes a wake-up that only
resets the Program Counter and Stack Pointer, the other flags remain in their original status.
Each pin on Port A can be setup using the PAWU register to permit a negative transition on the pin
to wake-up the system. When a Port A pin wake-up occurs, the program will resume execution at
the instruction following the “HALT” instruction. If the system is woken up by an interrupt, then
two possible situations may occur. The first is where the related interrupt is disabled or the interrupt
is enabled but the stack is full, in which case the program will resume execution at the instruction
following the “HALT” instruction. In this situation, the interrupt which woke-up the device will not
be immediately serviced, but will rather be serviced later when the related interrupt is finally enabled
or when a stack level becomes free. The other situation is where the related interrupt is enabled and
the stack is not full, in which case the regular interrupt response takes place. If an interrupt request
flag is set high before entering the SLEEP or IDLE Mode, the wake-up function of the related
interrupt will be disabled.
