BX-S959SD Series User’s Manual
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Watch-Dog-Timer
The watchdog timer serves as a safeguard against possible system lock-up in your industrial computer system. In
most industrial environments, there are heavy equipment, generators, high-voltage power lines, or power drops
that have adverse effects on your computer system. For instance, when a power drop occurs, it could cause the
CPU to come to a halt state or enter into an infinite loop, resulting in a system lock-up.
The application software created by user with the watchdog timer enabled, a RESET automatically generated
unless the software periodically triggers the timer within the setting time-out interval. That is, while the system
gets hung up, the running program can’t trigger the timer periodically. The timer will generate a reset signal to
reboot the system.
With this function, running programs can be restarted in the usual way even if an abnormal state occurs.
The software can be configured using 255 levels (1 to 255 seconds) of timeout intervals for the watchdog timer.
There is also a 2-second tolerance for timeout intervals. To maintain normal system operation, trigger the
watchdog timer again using a user-written program with the tolerance in mind.
Ex.) If the time-out interval is set to 30 seconds, the user-created program must retrigger the watchdog timer
before 28 seconds will have elapsed in consideration of the tolerance. If the program failed to retrigger the
timer (if 28 - 32 seconds have elapsed), the system will automatically reboot.
The I/O port is defined at address 2e/2fH. You can trigger/enable disable the timer by writing address 2e/2fH.
Here is an example for flow chart and programming how to use the watch-dog-timer.
(1)
Example flow chart
If [WDT Stop] is not performed within the limit time set
up by [WDT Start], system reset occurs.
When performing the re-start of WDT, it repeats [WDT Start] and [WDT Stop].
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It is also possible not to perform [WDT Stop] instead of performing [WDT Stop] to [WDT Start], but to perform [WDT
Start] continuously at the time of a re-start.
(2)
Example programming
The following example is written in Intel8086 assembly language.
===============
<WDT Initial>
===============
.MODEL SMALL
WDT Initial
WDT Start
WDT Stop
START
Yes
WDT
Restart?
No
END
}
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