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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 23, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/130 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/130 ;
Abstract
A watchdog circuit (WD) monitors the function of the processor (MC) in that the processor (MC) outputs a cyclically repeating test signal to the watchdog circuit (WD), and the watchdog circuit (WD) generates a reset signal (RST) for the processor (MC) if the test signal (WDS) does not appear in a time slot (S S ) specified by the watchdog circuit (WD). The width of the time slot (S S ) can be increased in the starting phase of a program sequence of the processor (MC).