Semiconductor integrated circuit and its reset method

Abstract

In a circuit block 110 to be an object of power-off, voltage detecting circuits 130 and 134 are disposed near power supply terminals 140 and 142, respectively, and voltage detecting circuits 132 and 136 are disposed at given positions far from the terminals 140 and 142, respectively, on power lines 141 and 143 of two electric-supply systems. The voltage detecting circuits are each made of MOS transistors only. At turning on the power from a power supply circuit 150 again, after all the voltage detecting circuits have detected arrival of power-supply voltages at a predetermined potential, a reset signal generating circuit 160 stops the input of a reset signal to the circuit block 110. Accordingly, since the reset state is stopped after the arrival of the power-supply voltages at the predetermined voltage, a semiconductor integrated circuit is initialized normally. This provides a semiconductor integrated circuit capable of generating a power-on reset signal appropriately.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.