Implementing a Microcontroller Watchdog with a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)

[摘要] Reliability is crucial to safety. Redundancy of important system components greatly enhances reliability and hence safety. Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are useful for monitoring systems and handling the logic necessary to keep them running with minimal interruption when individual components fail. A complete microcontroller watchdog with logic for failure handling can be implemented in a hardware description language (HDL.). HDL-based designs are vendor-independent and can be used on many FPGAs with low overhead.

[发布日期] 2013-04-12

[学科分类] 电子与电气工程