20.6.3 Early Warning Control

When the Always-On bit in the Control A register (CTRLA.ALWAYSON) is ‘1’, this register will be read-only.

Name: EWCTRL
Offset: 0x02
Reset: 0xXX
Property: PAC Write-Protection

The Reset value is determined from the Boot Configuration Fuses (BOOTCFG).

Bit 76543210 
     EWOFFSET[3:0] 
Access R/WR/WR/WR/W 
Reset xxxx 

Bits 3:0 – EWOFFSET[3:0] Early Warning Interrupt Time Offset

This bit field controls the number of CLK_WDT_OSC clock cycles between the start of the WDT time-out period and the generation of the early warning interrupt.

This bit field is loaded from the BOOTCFG – Boot Configuration Fuses section at start-up.

ValueNameDescription
0x0 CYC8 8 clock cycles
0x1 CYC16 16 clock cycles
0x2 CYC32 32 clock cycles
0x3 CYC64 64 clock cycles
0x4 CYC128 128 clock cycles
0x5 CYC256 256 clock cycles
0x6 CYC512 512 clock cycles
0x7 CYC1024 1024 clock cycles
0x8 CYC2048 2048 clock cycles
0x9 CYC4096 4096 clock cycles
0xA CYC8192 8192 clock cycles
0xB - 0xF Reserved