The L4993 is a monolithic integrated 5V Voltage regulator with a low drop voltage at currents up to 150 mA.The output voltage regulating element consists in a p-channel MOS and the regulation is performed regardless of input voltage transients up to 40V. The high precision of the output voltage is obtained with a pre-trimmed reference voltage. The L4993 is protected against short circuit and an over-temperature protection switches off the device in case of extremely high power dissipa-tion. The L4993 watchdog is active when the Enable is high. State of the art features like reset and watchdog make this device particularly suitable to supply microprocessor systems in automotive applications.Operating DC supply voltage range 5.6V to 31VReset circuit sensing the output voltage down to 1VProgrammable reset pulse delay with external capacitorWatchdogProgrammable watchdog timer with external capacitorEnable input for enabling/disabling the watchdog functionalityThermal shutdown and short circuit protectionWide temperature range (Tj= -40°C to 150°C)