SLAU847D October 2022 – May 2024 MSPM0L1105 , MSPM0L1106 , MSPM0L1227 , MSPM0L1228 , MSPM0L1228-Q1 , MSPM0L1303 , MSPM0L1304 , MSPM0L1304-Q1 , MSPM0L1305 , MSPM0L1305-Q1 , MSPM0L1306 , MSPM0L1306-Q1 , MSPM0L1343 , MSPM0L1344 , MSPM0L1345 , MSPM0L1346 , MSPM0L2227 , MSPM0L2228 , MSPM0L2228-Q1
The LFSS needs to monitor the presence of the VBAT supply and the VDD supply independently. There is no dedicated always-on domain which can act as a trusted supervisor power domain to indicate which domain is powered and which one is not. The VBAT domain as well as the VDD domain can be powered or not powered independently as a legal operating scenario.
For example, when the main VDD supply fails, the VBAT domain will be powered by a battery to supply the LFXT and RTC. On the other hand, the battery on the VBAT domain can be replaced, which means a temporary power loss on the VBAT power domain, while the main VDD supply powers the device. The LFSS does not contain any cross-over switches that supplies the failing power domain from the powered domain.
The voltage levels on VDD and VBAT can also be very different and there is no requirement for one supply to be higher than the other one. For example, the device can be powered by a 1.8V LDO from the system LDO on the PCB while the VBAT supply is coming from a 3V coin cell battery. Alternatively, the device can be powered by a system LDO at 3.3V while the voltage of a nearly depleted battery drops down to 2.0V.
As shown in Figure 8-1, each domain has a Vth based power-on reset (POR) circuit for the initial initialization of its PMU circuitry. A bandgap-based reference system (REF) will provide an accurate voltage reference for the brown-out reset (BOR) circuit and the LDO.
The LFSS provides two additional voltage sense circuits to indicate whether the other 3V power domain is powered or not.
With this architecture, the LFSS supports four typical application use cases, which are shown in Figure 8-3.