Quintin Beukes wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Thanks Spehro. Your mail is very informative.
> 
> So, everything said in this thread. What would be the recommended way
> for doing a soft reset? Something that similar to a power cycle would
> be the best.



If the actual processor at hand supports/has the RESET instruction,
use that.

> There was one suggestion of putting the program into a loop and
> waiting for a watchdog timeout. Though our watchdog timer is quite
> long. So maybe reconfiguring it to a millisecond, looping, restoring
> to sane value?

That is a common "solution" on those processors that lacks
the RESET instruction.

> 
> What other options are there?
> 

If I understand correctly from earlier posts, what you are
trying to do is to emulate a "real" reset (or power up) of
the processor, right ? Maybe build some external circuit that
can be trigged from an I/O pin and that actualy does a real
MCLR-RESET of the processor ? Or even a whole power-cycle,
if that whould be the best "test"...
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