A power management system is disclosed. The system includes an oscillator interface for use in a power management system, a power recycle circuit for use in a power management system, a pad clock and self test for use in a power management system, a clock enable circuit for use in a power management system, a power level detect circuit for use in a power management system, an internal source clock generation circuit for use in a power management system, and a power-save mode change detection circuit for use in a power management system. The oscillator interface includes an interle circuit for interfacing with an external oscillator used as a source of oscillations. A clock stabilization filter masks out spurious crystal frequencies in the oscillations during start-up of the power management system following an enabling of a feedback loop. The clock stabilization filter has circuitry which provides that the oscillations will start with a rising transition after filtering. A bypassing circuit enables the clock stabilization filter when the external oscillator is a crystal oscillator and for bypassing the clock stabilization filter when the external oscillator is a can oscillator. A masking circuit masks the oscillations from the rest of the power management system. The masking circuit has circuitry which disables the clock masking after a falling edge of the oscillations and stats back up with a rising transition of the oscillations.