Peripheral Registers
Watchdog Timer Registers
The following sections provide bit descriptions for the registers associated
with the watchdog timer.
Control (WDTCTL)
The watchdog control register (
ory-mapped register used to configure the watchdog timer.
protected against accidental writes from the processor core by the watch-
dog unlock register (
without an unlock command causes the WDT to expire, and reset the sys-
tem. This condition is captured in the watchdog exception field (
Writes made by software to this register keep it enabled. Only an External
hardware reset can disable
Status (WDTSTATUS)
The
WDTSTATUS
Table
A-72, contains the watchdog timer status information. This register
is not cleared by the WDT generated reset.
15
14
WDERR
Error
Figure A-51. WDTSTATUS Register
A-114
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WDTCTL
). Attempts by the core to write to
WDTUNLOCK
.
WDTCTL
register, shown in
Figure A-51
13
12
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9
8
7
6
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), is a 32-bit system mem-
and described in
5
4
3
2
1
0
WDRO
Slave Transfer Direction
is
WDTCTL
WDTCTL
).
WDERR