SNIU028D February 2016 – September 2020 UCD3138 , UCD3138064 , UCD3138064A , UCD3138128 , UCD3138A , UCD3138A64
The watchdog is the smallest module in the timer. It is primarily designed to assist in recovery in the event of a firmware or processor fault. The watchdog is not intended for use as a source of a timer interrupt. It doesn’t use the central clock – for reliability it has its own unique clock. This clock has a much higher variation over temperature and voltage, and from device to device than the clock for the rest of the device. See the data sheet for each device for the details of the variation.
Unlike the other timers, the counter in the watchdog is invisible, and the compare data values are fixed.
The interrupts occur always when the counter is half full and when it is full.