SLLA651 April 2025 TCAN2845-Q1 , TCAN2847-Q1 , TCAN2855-Q1 , TCAN2857-Q1
Another popular protection feature that is common amongst varied applications is a watchdog timer. The watchdog timer is a bit more of an intelligent protection feature as instead of looking for thermal or electrical overstress this is used to make sure that proper communication is upheld between the controller and the SBC. The watchdog timer integrated into the TCAN28XX family of devices can be configured into multiple modes of operation depending on SBC mode. By default, watchdog has a long window period during the transition from restart to standby mode, this is active in standby after initial long window, and also active in normal mode. This can also be turned on in sleep mode if VCC1 is set to be active during sleep mode.