Patent ID: 8880863

Claim:
A reset and reboot circuit, applied in an X86 electronic portable device comprising an embedded controller, the reset and reboot circuit comprising: an output node, having an output signal; a first node, coupled to the embedded controller; a first level controller, coupled to the first node and the output node; a second node, having a control signal; a switch, coupled to the second node, being turned on in response to a reset/reboot event to enable the control signal; a second level controller, coupled to the second node and the output node, being turned on in response to the enabled control signal to enable the output signal; and a logic unit, disabling a drive signal in response to the enabled output signal; wherein, the X86 electronic portable device is driven by the disabled drive signal to reset, the embedded controller provides a restart signal to the first node after having been reset, and the first level controller further disables the output signal in response to the enabled restart signal.