Yes - in hardware where faults are expected to be rare it's often a good idea to just detect that something went wrong. If you know something bad happened you c

Yes - in hardware where faults are expected to be rare it's often a good idea to just detect that something went wrong. If you know something bad happened you can choose to re-run. (E.g. restart using a watchdog timer) Silently jumping back to a default state is sometimes useful, but could result in unpredictability or perhaps silent data corruption for some critical applications.