EDN

Use a watchdog timer even with perfect code

A watchdog timer may one day save your life or, better yet, your career. Although this statement is a little melodramatic, the proper use of this tool separates the hackers from the programmers in ...
SDxCentral

Tachyum Adds Watchdog Timers to Prodigy FPGA

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#Linux--Tachyum® today announced that it has added a watchdog timer to its Prodigy® FPGA emulation system to help detect and recovery from device or system malfunction. The ...
Electronic Design

µP Supervisory Circuits Feature Manual Reset And Watchdog Timer

The MAX6821 through MAX6825 microprocessor supervisory circuits offer reset thresholds capable of monitoring system voltages from 1.8V to 5V. Whenever a supply voltage falls below the reset threshold, ...
EDN

Automotive LDO packs watchdog timer

Nisshinbo’s NP4271 LDO regulator features a high-precision watchdog timer and reset functions through window-type output voltage monitoring. Designed for automotive functional safety, the series meets ...
Electronic Design

Micropower Step-Down Regulator Has On-Chip Watchdog Timer

The LT3689 is a 700-mA, 36-V input step-down switching regulator with a power-on reset and watchdog timer. Its Burst Mode operation keeps quiescent current under 85 µA in no-load standby conditions.
Ars Technica

Java Timer Reset

So I inherited this bit of Java code and it has what I will call a Watchdog Timer.<BR>It is set for like 10 minutes and if nothing good happens in 10 minutes it runs some cleanup code.<BR><BR>Now when ...