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In my case, it is required.  The fear is that if the micro dies in  
such a way that the watchdog doesn't work either you'd be in trouble,  
so you have an external watchdog which does the reset.  You also have  
some other way of detecting a dead micro and then arrange to fail in  
a "good" way.


On Jun 17, 2008, at 2:33 PM, Enki wrote:

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> 	What is the advantage of using an external WDT instead of the
> internal one?
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> 	Mark Jordan
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> On 17 Jun 2008 at 11:57, Zack Widup wrote:
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>> Me too.  I usually turn the internal WDT off.
>>
>> Zack
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