Automatic application restart in an embedded environment

摘要

The present invention relates to a method and system for operating an input/output circuit (26) for driving peripheral devices controlled by an embedded system. For increasing the overall system availability the invention proposes to add some limited repeatedly performed status storing functionality preferably into a register storage (40) of the I/O devices. This can be easily exploited, i.e., read out from external of the input/output devices via the controller of the embedded system.