FabIATech Corporation57Watchdog Timer SettingThe watchdog timer is a circuit that may be used from your program software todetect system crashes or hang-ups. The Watch/Power LED on front panel is thewatchdog timer indicator, which is located at left side on the front panel.Whenever the watchdog timer is enabling, the Power/Watchdog LED will blink toindicate that the timer is counting. The watchdog timer is automatically disabledafter reset.Once you have Enable the watchdog timer, your program must trigger thewatchdog timer every time before it times out. After you trigger the watchdogtimer, it will be set to non-zero value to watchdog counter and start to count downagain. If your program fails to trigger the watchdog timer before time-out, it willgenerate a reset pulse to reset the system.The factor of the watchdog timer time-out constant is approximately 1 second.The period for the watchdog timer time-out is between 1 to FF timer factors.If you want to reset your system when watchdog times out, the following tablelisted the relation of timer factors between time-out periods.Time Factor Time-Out Period(Seconds)Time-Out Period(Minutes)1 1 12 2 23 3 34 4 45 5 5“ “ ““ “ ““ “ “FF FF FF