4571 Datasheet, PDF (62/126 Pages) Renesas Technology Corp – SINGLE-CHIP 4-BIT CMOS MICROCOMPUTER

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<The main routine>
• Assigns a single word of RAM to a software watchdog timer
(SWDT) and writes the initial value N in the SWDT once at
each execution of the main routine. The initial value N should
satisfy the following condition:
N+1 ≥ (Counts of interrupt processing executed in each main
routine)
As the main routine execution cycle may change because of an
interrupt processing or others, the initial value N should have a
margin.
• Watches the operation of the interrupt processing routine by
comparing the SWDT contents with counts of interrupt
processing after the initial value N has been set.
• Detects that the interrupt processing routine has failed and
deter-mines to branch to the program initialization routine for
recovery processing in the following case:
If the SWDT contents do not change after interrupt processing.
<The interrupt processing routine>
• Decrements the SWDT contents by 1 at each interrupt processing.
• Determines that the main routine operates normally when the
SWDT contents are reset to the initial value N at almost fixed
cycles (at the fixed interrupt processing count).
• Detects that the main routine has failed and determines to
branch to the program initialization routine for recovery
processing in the following case:
If the SWDT contents are not initialized to the initial value N
but continued to decrement and if they reach 0 or less.
Main routine Interrupt processing routine
(SWDT) ← N
EI
(SWDT) ← (SWDT)−1
Interrupt processing
Main processing
≠N _(SWDT)
=N?
N
Interrupt processing
routine errors
(SWDT) ^>0
≤0?
≤0 ^RTI
Return
Main routine
errors
Fig 70. Watchdog timer by software
Rev.1.02 May 25, 2007 Page 62 of 124
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