PLC & Programming
Watchdog
Definition
A timer that faults the processor when a scan takes longer than its configured limit, on the assumption that the program has stopped making progress.
A watchdog fault says the program did not finish, which is a very different problem from a program that finished with the wrong answer. Usual causes are an unbounded loop, a routine calling itself, or a message instruction blocked on a device that stopped answering.
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