Lpc2000

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "brendanmurphy37"
<brendanmurphy37@...> wrote:
> Watchdog's are designed (amongst other things) to recover from  
> unknown or unpredicted problems. By definition, I can't be aware of 
> these beforehand to allow me to "move on" as you put it.

My textbook and processor manuals say the watchdogs in CPUs are
designed to enable recovery from software deadlocks.

If you have hardware deadlocks, and need to recover from these, you
have need a watchdog that is external to the system that deadlocks.

Jaya