2009/4/7 JMGross <[email protected]>: > > I you require a WDT for environment stability (and not just to circumvent > code deadlocks due to poorly written code) then the WDT may not be disabled > EVER. It is on at startup and it has to stay on. period. > If you don't need it, well, maybe a faster startup that disables WDT is nice. > And if you KNOW that htis happens wihtout digging into linker listings or > library source code, it is even nicer. But in case you NEED the > WDT to ensure device crash recovery, there must be a way to never disable it > at all.
I think this is right; since in the most recent MSPs, there is the integrated 12KHz VLO clock, setting the watchdog to be sourced from it with the 32K divider will be roughly 3s....plenty enough of time for clearing the bss. However how should the older MSPs be handled? R#
