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06/23/04 23:36
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#73067 - Effectively Kicking Your Watchdog
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Thomas Fernando said:
I have connected the ALE to the strobe input as suggested in their application note.

That isn't a terribly useful way to "kick" a watchdog.
It just shows you that the processor is accessing external memory - it might be stuck in a loop, it might be overwhelmed by spurious interrupts, it might be executing junk in "unprogrammed" areas of ROM, it might be accessing invalid areas of RAM.

You should "kick" the watchdog from your code in such a way as to guarantee that the "kick" can only occur if everything in your code is working properly; ie, the dog will "bite" if anything stops working (or "hangs").

Note that no live animals are harmed in this process!

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RST oscillates in DS1232            01/01/70 00:00      
   RE: RST oscillates in DS1232            01/01/70 00:00      
      Read Datasheet DS1232            01/01/70 00:00      
   Battery life            01/01/70 00:00      
   RE: Oscillation            01/01/70 00:00      
   Effectively Kicking Your Watchdog            01/01/70 00:00      
      RE: Effectively Kicking Your Watchdog            01/01/70 00:00      
   RE: Ansering OP            01/01/70 00:00      
      RE: Answering OP            01/01/70 00:00      
         RE: Disabling Watchdog            01/01/70 00:00      
            RE: Disabling Watchdog            01/01/70 00:00      
               RE: Disabling Watchdog            01/01/70 00:00      
                  RE: Disabling Watchdog            01/01/70 00:00      
                     RE: Disabling Watchdog            01/01/70 00:00      
                        Correction            01/01/70 00:00      
                           RE: Correction            01/01/70 00:00      
                              You can test it...            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 RE: fighting resets            01/01/70 00:00      
               alternative ds1232 WITHOUT watchog            01/01/70 00:00      
                  RE: alternative ds1232 WITHOUT watchog            01/01/70 00:00      
               RE: Battery            01/01/70 00:00      
               power reduction            01/01/70 00:00      
                  RE: power reduction            01/01/70 00:00      
                  RE: power reduction            01/01/70 00:00      
               RE: Disabling Watchdog            01/01/70 00:00      
                  RE: Disabling Watchdog            01/01/70 00:00      
                     RE: Disabling Watchdog            01/01/70 00:00      
                     RE: Disabling Watchdog            01/01/70 00:00      
                        RE: Disabling Watchdog            01/01/70 00:00      
                     RE: Disabling Watchdog            01/01/70 00:00      
                        RE: Disabling Watchdog            01/01/70 00:00      
                        RE: Disabling Watchdog            01/01/70 00:00      
                           RE: Maxim Engineering Journal            01/01/70 00:00      
                              RE: Maxim Engineering Journal            01/01/70 00:00      
                              RE: Maxim Engineering Journal            01/01/70 00:00      

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