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| Terminology poll: ____ the watchdog |
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| tom66:
Feed or pet the watchdog |
| tautech:
Warning: Power Rail low ! Isn't that the only thing watchdog's do ? :-// |
| Damianos:
I think no! This is the "brown-out" detection circuit. Usually the BOR (Brown Out Reset), to avoid the ... misbehaving. |
| Jwalling:
--- Quote from: tautech on May 25, 2021, 05:46:26 am ---Warning: Power Rail low ! Isn't that the only thing watchdog's do ? :-// --- End quote --- No, some also get kicked by the processor. If it doesn't get kicked, then the processor is assumed to have stopped/crashed and is reset. |
| nfmax:
Way back, we put a watchdog into an FPGA, so we had control over the 'feeding' mechanism. The processor had to write 0xFEEDF1D0 into the watchdog register to not be reset |
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