An apparatus for a power supply with brownout protection and the method
thereof are proposed. As a brownout condition occurs, the apparatus
informs at least one microprocessor to process the shutdown process
timely. The apparatus includes a power factor correction (PFC) circuit,
and a bus capacitor generating a bus voltage by receiving an input
voltage via the PFC circuit, and a PWM circuit generating multiple output
voltages for the microprocessor, and a supervisor circuit generating a
power-good signal in response to a proportional bus voltage, and a
brownout circuit for disabling the boosting operation of the PFC circuit
under a brownout condition. When the boosting operation is disabled, the
bus voltage starts to fall. As the proportional bus voltage is lower than
a threshold voltage, the supervisor circuit generates the power-good
signal. Therefore, the microprocessor can process the shutdown procedure
timely.