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Title: Reverse engineering of the ESP8266 watchdog timer
Post by: novlean on June 09, 2017, 04:02:59 pm

ESP8266 contains a hardware watchdog timer (WDT) module. As many parts of ESP8266, it is undocumented. While working on Mongoose OS ESP8266 port, we reverse-engineered most of the module's functionality and ROM functions. This article describes the process and the results.

https://mongoose-os.com/blog/esp8266-watchdog-timer/ (https://mongoose-os.com/blog/esp8266-watchdog-timer/)