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Eileen 10-07-2005 01:53 AM

Watch-Dog-Timer cause reboot
 
Could anyone gives me any information related to watch-dog-timer that causes my product to reboot???

Any information will be helpfuly!!
Zillioms and thousands of thank you!!

Wim Sturkenboom 10-07-2005 04:30 AM

What product? And what do you want to know?
Specific hardware? Which CPU/microcontroller?

In general:
A watchdog-timer is a counter that counts to a certain value (sometimes a programmable value). When that value is reached, a reset signal is generated.
To prevent a reset, you have to 'kick' the watchdog-timer at a regular base. And here it depends on what kind of hardware you're talking about.
Microcontroller? Probably write to a register.
External watchdog? Probably toggle (or pulse) a pin on the wdt.

Eileen 10-10-2005 02:22 AM

Hello All,

Please dun ignore my "reboot" problem!
The error message is WDT_OVERFLOW.
I am using sh7709s, microprocessor.
But I am not the one designing the product.
Is there any ways to check on the wdtd portion??
What are the files related to wdtd??

Greatly Appreciate anyone who helps!!

Wim Sturkenboom 10-10-2005 06:09 AM

Sorry, not familiar with SH7709 and I don't seem to be able to easily find datasheets, application notes and programmer information.

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Originally posted by Eileen
But I am not the one designing the product.
So what are you doing? Programming it? Or using it?

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Originally posted by Eileen
The error message is WDT_OVERFLOW.
When do you get that message? Compile time, while running in debugger, runtime ?
Sounds to me like a warning from a (hardware) debugger.

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Originally posted by Eileen
Is there any ways to check on the wdtd portion??
Debugger.

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Originally posted by Eileen
What are the files related to wdtd??
How do you mean? Documentation files? Source files? Ask the programmer who's writing the code.


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