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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2022
Filed:
May. 12, 2020
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Gaurav Gupta, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sachin Naik, Fremont, CA (US);
Stefan Martin Schaeckeler, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Surajit Ghoshal, Roseville, CA (US);
Titian Lau, San Francisco, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
According to some embodiments, a system comprises a computer system comprising a processing unit, an interrupt controller, an internal watchdog, and a computer system reset interface. The system further comprises a watchdog controller comprising a secondary watchdog timer. Expiry of the computer system internal watchdog triggers the interrupt controller to cause the processing unit to collect debug information and triggers the watchdog controller to start a secondary watchdog timer. Expiry of the secondary watchdog timer triggers the watchdog controller to reset the computer system.