Hardware Monitor Product Description
July 4th 1997 - Analog Devices Proprietary - Page 1 of 10
ANALOG
DEVICES
Hardware Monitor for Desktop PCs
Features
Monitoring of All Desktop PC Supplies in Parallel
General Description
The ADM9268 Hardware Monitor IC is a self contained IC which monitors six Power
Supplies in a Desktop PC in parallel and outputs the status information on an Industry
Each power supply monitor circuit uses a proprietary window comparator design whereby
a three resistor network is used in conjunction with two comparators and a single precision
voltage reference to check if the supply is within it’s required operating tolerance. An added
feature of this design is that the power supply voltages being monitored can be higher than
the power supply voltage to the ADM9268 IC itself.
Analog Devices experience in the design of Power Supply Supervisory circuits is used to
provide an optimum solution for the overall circuit in terms of cost, performance and power
consumption. Some of the features of the design being the incorporation of hysteresis and
glitch immunity into the comparators.
The part will be manufactured on one of Analog Devices’ proprietary BiCMOS processes
which also includes high performance thin film resistors to achieve the accuracy required for
the precision voltage reference and power supply high and low trip points.
Internal Comparator Hysteresis
Power Supply Glitch Immunity
Two-Wire I2C Compatible Serial Interface
VCC from 2.5V to 6V
Guaranteed Operation from -40C to +85C
No External Components
16 Pin Narrow (150mil) SOIC Package
Standard two-wire I2C compatible serial interface. There are also two active low event input
pins, TMP1 and TMP2, which might come from temperature sensor circuits, which are added
to the status information which can be read through the two-wire serial interface.
Supports Klamath CPU Core Supply Voltage Options
The SU6 input is normally used to monitor the CPU Core Voltage. The ADM9268 supports
the range of CPU Core Voltage options from 1.3V to 3.5V which can be set up by
a 5 bit VID code through the serial interface. This makes the ADM9268 compatible with
all the CPUs currently available in the marketplace.