A special timer that, once configured and enabled, counts down to 0 When expired, causes the CPU to reset The countdown can be restarted at any time before expiration If periodically restarted, the expiration will never occur, and the reset will never happen. Watchdog Timers6 Why use a wat...
The Intel 8051 microcontroller has a pair of timer registers, namely 16-bit and timer0 . These registers can function in two modes, namely Timer mode and Counter mode. The key distinction between these modes lies in the source of the timer register incrementation. Timer Mode During timer mode...