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Not knowing your application or context, I cannot give a definite answer.

However, having spent 30 years working on US Military cockpit avionics display systems, this is a common number used in these contexts for the watchdog timeout period. The video field rate is 60Hz, resulting in a field time of 16.667ms. The watchdog timeout period is set to 18ms to allow a little over a millisecond longer than the field time before resetting the processor, to allow for some video sync timing jitter.

Systems that were primarily stroke oriented typically used a watchdog timeout of about 17ms instead, to keep the field rate closer to 60Hz even when a timeout happened.

A few systems I worked on had watchdog timeout periods of 0.1s or longer. It all depended on application and context.

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