SmartDV’s Watchdog Timer IP is a silicon-proven, fully featured system fault detection and recovery solution purpose-built for SoC designs requiring reliable protection against software anomalies and hardware failures across embedded, automotive, IoT, and industrial applications. Implementing a 32-bit programmable counter with cold reset generation, interrupt indication, and comprehensive pause, resume, and restart capabilities, it provides a robust, integration-ready watchdog peripheral for any SoC requiring autonomous system health monitoring and fault recovery.
Designed for the practical reliability requirements of modern embedded SoC designs, the IP supports both firmware and hardware pause and resume for flexible watchdog management across diverse operating scenarios, software-initiated timer restart for periodic service acknowledgment, automatic reload for continuous monitoring, and hold count capability for snapshot and diagnostic use cases. Its configurable interrupt and cold reset thresholds give SoC teams a production-tested, feature-complete watchdog timer that provides a critical last line of defense against system lockup in safety-sensitive embedded and automotive designs.
Built for design flexibility and silicon efficiency, the IP core is highly configurable for both ASIC and FPGA implementations, with a strong focus on area optimization, power management, and peak performance. Its parameterized architecture and clean host interface enable fast integration and confident design bring-up across a wide range of process nodes and target applications.
