Ethernet/USB-based Watchdog Timer and Expansion Board

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Ethernet/USB-based Watchdog Timer?and Expansion Board Watchdog and Breakout board for Teensy 3.2 The Ethernet Watchdog Board (EWB) was created to provide a watchdog timer service for two computers controlling a TRIGA nuclear reactor. The specific TRIGA reactor (installed at Idaho National Laboratories) is controlled by two PCs -- one running Windows (as a display terminal) and one running Suse Linux (this one actually controls the reactor). Previous to the use of the EWB, the TRIGA console used two RS-232-based watchdog timer to verify that these two PCs were running (and refreshing the…