The code example shows an assembly and C function for turning off the watchdog timer. The functions disable interrupts to prevent interrupts during execution. The assembly function resets the watchdog timer, clears flags, and disables the timer. The C function does the same using macros and register access. A note explains the code prevents accidental watchdog enabling from causing an eternal reset loop.
The code example shows an assembly and C function for turning off the watchdog timer. The functions disable interrupts to prevent interrupts during execution. The assembly function resets the watchdog timer, clears flags, and disables the timer. The C function does the same using macros and register access. A note explains the code prevents accidental watchdog enabling from causing an eternal reset loop.
The code example shows an assembly and C function for turning off the watchdog timer. The functions disable interrupts to prevent interrupts during execution. The assembly function resets the watchdog timer, clears flags, and disables the timer. The C function does the same using macros and register access. A note explains the code prevents accidental watchdog enabling from causing an eternal reset loop.
The code example shows an assembly and C function for turning off the watchdog timer. The functions disable interrupts to prevent interrupts during execution. The assembly function resets the watchdog timer, clears flags, and disables the timer. The C function does the same using macros and register access. A note explains the code prevents accidental watchdog enabling from causing an eternal reset loop.
The following code example shows one assembly and one C function for turning off the watchdog
timer. The example
assumes that interrupts are controlled (e.g. by disabling interrupts globally) so that no interrupts will occur during the execution of these functions.
Assembly Code Example(1)
WDT_off: ; Turn off global interrupt cli ; Reset Watchdog Timer wdr ; Clear WDRF in MCUSR in r16, MCUSR andi r16, (0xff & (0<<WDRF)) out MCUSR, r16 ; Write logical one to WDCE and WDE ; Keep old prescaler setting to prevent unintentional time-out lds r16, WDTCSR ori r16, (1<<WDCE) | (1<<WDE) sts WDTCSR, r16 ; Turn off WDT ldi r16, (0<<WDE) sts WDTCSR, r16 ; Turn on global interrupt sei ret C Code Example(1) void WDT_off(void) { __disable_interrupt(); __watchdog_reset(); /* Clear WDRF in MCUSR */ MCUSR &= ~(1<<WDRF); /* Write logical one to WDCE and WDE */ /* Keep old prescaler setting to prevent unintentional time-out */ WDTCSR |= (1<<WDCE) | (1<<WDE); /* Turn off WDT */ WDTCSR = 0x00; __enable_interrupt(); }
Note: 1. See Section 5. “About Code Examples” on page 8.
2. Note: If the watchdog is accidentally enabled, for example by a runaway pointer or brown-out condition, the device will be reset and the watchdog timer will stay enabled. If the code is not set up to handle the watchdog, this might lead to an eternal loop of time-out resets. To avoid this situation, the application software should always clear the watchdog system reset flag (WDRF) and the WDE control bit in the initialization routine, even if the watchdog is not in use.
