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14 years ago

FPGA Watchdog timer

Hello all, I'm working on a board with a Cyclone III LS. In the FPGA, we have implemented a watchdog functionality for the processor on the board. However, the customer now desires watchdog functio...
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14 years ago

Yes, our FPGA implemented watchdog also resets the FPGA itself when it issues the processor reset.

My thought was that if it's configuration load being corrupted (Their question was "What if it doesn't load right?"), but no matter how many times you reconfig, it won't un-corrupt that load.

I think their concern is that if the FPGA "stops working" they didn't know if there was a way to automatically wipe it clean and start fresh.