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Hello everybody, ¿Anyone has included a watchdog in sopc builder? ¿Can I restart the watchdog from the c file loading in the micro? ¿Is there any example with the watchdog timer? ...
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Honored ContributorYou can add an interval timer configured as a watchdog. See the documentation here: http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/n2cpu_nii51008.pdf.
To use it in your software, you first have to start it, and then regularly write any value as its period to reset it.
