ZHCSH09 October 2017 MSP432E401Y
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A watchdog timer is used to regain control when a system has failed due to a software error or to the failure of an external device to respond in the expected way. The watchdog timer can generate an interrupt, a nonmaskable interrupt, or a reset when a time-out value is reached. In addition, the watchdog timer is Arm FiRM-compliant and can be configured to generate an interrupt to the MCU on its first time-out, and to generate a reset signal on its second time-out. After the watchdog timer has been configured, the lock register can be written to prevent inadvertently altering the timer configuration.
Two watchdog timer modules are supported: Watchdog Timer 0 uses the system clock for its timer clock; Watchdog Timer 1 uses the PIOSC as its timer clock. The watchdog timer module has the following features: