FabIATech Corporation56Watchdog TimerThis section describes how to use the Watchdog Timer, including disabled, enabled,and trigger functions.The FR9100 is equipped with a programmable time-out period watchdog timer.You can use your own program to Enabled the watchdog timer. Once you haveEnable the watchdog timer, the program should trigger the I/O every time beforethe timer times out. If your program fails to trigger or disable this timer before ittimes out, e.g. because of a system hang-up, it will generate a reset signal to resetthe system. The time-out period can be programmed to be set from 1 to 255seconds or minutes.
