Watchdog Timer Special Registers; Watchdog Timer Control (Wtcon) Register - Samsung S3C2416 User Manual

WATCHDOG TIMER

3 WATCHDOG TIMER SPECIAL REGISTERS

3.1 WATCHDOG TIMER CONTROL (WTCON) REGISTER

The WTCON register allows the user to enable/disable the watchdog timer, select the clock signal from 4 different
sources, enable/disable interrupts, and enable/disable the watchdog timer output.
The Watchdog timer is used to resume the S3C2416 restart on malfunction after its power on. At this time,
disable the interrupt generation and enable the Watchdog timer output for reset signal.
If controller restart is not desired and if the user wants to use the normal timer only, which is provided by the
Watchdog timer, enable the interrupt generation and disable the Watchdog timer output for reset signal.
Register
WTCON 0x53000000
WTCON Bit
Prescaler value [15:8] Prescaler value.
Reserved [7:6]
Watchdog timer [5]
Clock select [4:3]
Interrupt [2]
generation
Reserved [1]
Reset [0]
enable/disable
NOTE: Initial state of 'Reset enable/disable' is 1(reset enable). If user do not disable this bit, S3C2416 will be rebooted in
about 5.63sec (In the case of PCLK is 12MHz). So at boot loader, this bit should be disabled before under control of
Operating System, or Firmware.
11-4
Address R/W
R/W Watchdog timer control register
The valid range is from 0 to 255(28-1).
Reserved.
These two bits must be 00 in normal operation.
Enable or disable bit of Watchdog timer.
0 = Disable
1 = Enable
Determine the clock division factor.
00 = 16
01 = 32
10 = 64
11 = 128
Enable or disable bit of the interrupt.
0 = Disable
1 = Enable
Reserved.
This bit must be 0 in normal operation.
Enable or disable bit of Watchdog timer output for reset signal.
1 = Assert reset signal of the S3C2416 at watchdog time-out
0 = Disable the reset function of the watchdog timer.
S3C2416X RISC MICROPROCESSOR
Description
Description
Reset Value
0x8021
Initial State
0x80
00
1
00
0
0
1