[sdiy] using system resetting chips for synth use

[anthony]

When the voltage in a system containing a CPU goes below a certain level it 
send out a 'reset' pulse to the CPU.
So here you have a 3-pin device that sends out a pulse when the voltage goes 
below a certain level. There's some power on behavior too I think, like a 
delay between multiple resets. I'm sure exactly.

If you tear apart enough computers, VCR's and CD players you'll accumulate a 
lot of them, especially if you're me and save everything, albeit all taken 
apart and sorted and catalogued. I have a datasheet for almost every chip 
I've scrounged. And some of the ones that I can find a brief description for 
but no datasheet drive me NUTZ!

> anthony wrote:
>
>> I was looking through all of the different little system reset IC's that 
>> I have
>
> Can you please explain what a "system reset IC" is exactly. I've heard of 
> a "reset vector"s ect.
>