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11.12 Watchdog Timer (WDT)
The Watchdog Timer is a free running on-chip RC oscil-
lator, which does not require any external components.
This RC oscillator is separate from the RC oscillator of
the OSC1/CLKI pin. That means that the WDT will run,
even if the clock on the OSC1/CLKI and OSC2/CLKO
pins of the device has been stopped, for example, by
execution of a SLEEP instruction.
During normal operation, a WDT time-out generates a
device RESET (Watchdog Timer Reset). If the device is
in SLEEP mode, a WDT time-out causes the device to
wake-up and continue with normal operation (Watch-
dog Timer Wake-up). The TO bit in the STATUS regis-
ter will be cleared upon a Watchdog Timer time-out.
The WDT can be permanently disabled by clearing
configuration bit WDTE (Section 11.1).
PIC16F872
WDT time-out period values may be found in the Elec-
trical Specifications section under parameter #31. Val-
ues for the WDT prescaler (actually a postscaler, but
shared with the Timer0 prescaler) may be assigned
using the OPTION_REG register.
Note 1: The CLRWDT and SLEEP instructions
clear the WDT and the postscaler, if
assigned to the WDT, and prevent it from
timing out and generating a device
RESET condition.
2: When a CLRWDT instruction is executed
and the prescaler is assigned to the WDT,
the prescaler count will be cleared, but
the prescaler assignment is not changed.
FIGURE 11-10:
WATCHDOG TIMER BLOCK DIAGRAM
From TMR0 Clock Source
(Figure 5-1)
WDT Timer
0
1
M
U
X
Postscaler
8
WDT
Enable Bit
PSA
8 - to - 1 MUX
PS2:PS0
To TMR0 (Figure 5-1)
0
1
MUX
PSA
Note:
WDT
Time-out
PSA and PS2:PS0 are bits in the OPTION_REG register.
TABLE 11-7: SUMMARY OF WATCHDOG TIMER REGISTERS
Address
Name
Bit 7
Bit 6
Bit 5
2007h
Config. bits
(1) BODEN⁽¹⁾ CP1
81h,181h OPTION_REG RBPU INTEDG T0CS
Legend: Shaded cells are not used by the Watchdog Timer.
Note 1: See Register 11-1 for operation of these bits.
Bit 4
CP0
T0SE
Bit 3
PWRTE⁽¹⁾
PSA
Bit 2
WDTE
PS2
Bit 1
FOSC1
PS1
Bit 0
FOSC0
PS0
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