In a power supply monitoring device, a power supply voltage monitoring
portion always monitors a power supply voltage supplied to a monitored
circuit and outputs a voltage reduction signal when detecting that the
power supply voltage is reduced below a predetermined threshold (e.g. a
second voltage higher than a voltage guaranteeing a normal operation of
the monitored circuit and lower than a rated voltage). A monitoring
controller having received the voltage reduction signal determines
whether or not an operational malfunction has occurred in the monitored
circuit by comparing operation data of the monitored circuit with
reference data of the monitoring controller itself. Also, the monitoring
controller executes recovery processing (reset processing or reference
data overwrite processing) suitable for the monitored circuit referring
to a prestored recovery processing type specific to the monitored circuit
when detecting an operational malfunction of the monitored circuit.