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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

Reading issue with the ALTREMOTE_UPDATE IP

Hello all! I am using the remote system upgrade feature in my cyclone III. To do so, I instantiated the altremote_update controller in sopc builder. Everything works fine ... almost. I wou...
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16 years ago

I don't know why you get the timeout value plus 8. However, the value in that register is not the current value of the watchdog timer. It's simply the timeout value. The value in that register is loaded into the counter each time the application performs a write to the watchdog timer. And it's not intended necessarily to be read by the application image.

Jake