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16 years ago

Counting Watchdog Resets

Hello I have a NIOS 2 application that has an Interval timer configured as a Watchdog timer. This works as expected in my code, causing a CPU reset as appropriate for the circumstances. Howeve...
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16 years ago

You could route the reset pulse to outside the sopc system. Then, create a custom component with a counter that increments the count every time the wd count is input, as well as trigger the system reset. Just have to catch the edge of the wd input signal, make sure you don't count too many, and make sure the count doesn't get reset based on the reset signal.

-kevin