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This page gives an overview of the bare-metal driver support for the System Watchdog Timer.

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Introduction

The watchdog timer can be used to prevent system lockup; for example, when software becomes trapped in a deadlock.
In normal operation, the user restarts the watchdog at regular intervals before the timer counts down to zero.
In cases where the timer does reach zero and the watchdog is enabled, one or a combination of the following signals is

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Info

Note: To view the sources for a particular release, use the rel-version tag in github.  For example, for the 2020.1 release, the proper version of the code is: https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/master/XilinxProcessorIPLib/drivers/wdtps

The driver source code is organized into different folders. The table below shows the wdtps driver source organization.

DirectoryDescription
srcDriver source files, make and cmakelists file
examplesExample applications that show how to use the driver features
docProvides the API and data structure details
dataDriver .tcl , .mdd and .yaml files

Note: The .yaml(in data folder) and CMakeLists.txt(in src folder) files would be used in System Device Tree based flow.

Driver Implementation

For a full list of features supported by this IP, please refer Chapter 14: Timers and clocks in Zynqmp Trm

Features

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Example Design Architecture

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ChangeLog

2023.2

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xlnx_rel_v2023.2/doc/ChangeLog#L615

2023.1

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xlnx_rel_v2023.1/doc/ChangeLog#L3586

2022.2

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2022.1

https://gitenterprise.xilinx.com/embeddedsw/embeddedsw/blob/xlnx_rel_v2022.1/doc/ChangeLog#L129

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