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Advantech SOM-A200 series Software Manual
1.4.6.3 Display
From time to time it is unnecessary to turn on the display attached to the SOM-A all
the day. The Display page provides several frequently used functions such as turning
off the LCD and backlight to elongate the display repair period, adjusting brightness
or contrast. For example, if user wants the backlight turn-off setting function, he can
press "setting" button. Then the backlight page of Display Properties of Control Panel
will appear on the screen. Besides, user can click the "Off Now" button to turn off the
backlight of the display panel immediately without waiting. Once the backlight was
turned off, there were three inputs to turn it on: (1) mouse; (2) keyboard; (3)
touch-screen; user can use any one of them to turn on the display. The lower
“Brightness” and “Contrast” blocks have scroll bars by which users can tune
brightness level of TFT LCD or the contrast level of passive matrix LCD.
Figure 1.10 Display configuration
1.4.6.4 WatchDog timer
It is important in industrial applications that the control systems are rarely crashed, or
are capable of self-reset if they are halted somehow. Watchdog function of automatic
resetting system is therefore provided in SOM-A. There is a timer inside the watchdog
function. User’s AP could invoke the associated APIs in Watchdog function to start
the timer, then Watchdog function would repeat the countdown of the specified period
of time to reboot the system if the user’s AP does not clear the timer in time
periodically. The Watchdog function in the SOM-A provides eight different time
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