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Getting Started EPXA1 Development Kit Getting Started User Guide

After successfully debugging the design using the debug settings version

of the software, you can run the release settings version.

GNUPro Insight Debugger

The GNUPro Toolkit from Red Hat incorporates the Insight graphical

debugger. The debugger interfaces with the GNU debugger stub

provided by Altera in the Quartus II software, version 2.2 or later. The

Altera-supplied stub runs on a host PC and debugs the code running on

the Excalibur device using the JTAG debug module.

Refer to the GNUPro Insight debugger manual for more information on

the debug commands.

The following steps explain how to set up the GNUPro Insight debugger

and run the application software:

1. In a Command Prompt window, start up the GNU debugger stub by

typing:

<Quartus Installation Directory>\bin\gdbstub↵

2. Execute <GNUPro Tools installation directory>\bin\arm-elf-gdb.exe

to start Insight.

3. Click on Open (File menu) in the Insight debugger and browse to

gnu\debug\hello.elf.

4. Choose Co n ne c t To Ta rg e t (Run menu) in the Insight Debugger

window and specify the following in the dialog box:

–Target: Remote/TCP

–Port: 9999

–Ensure that Download Program under More Options is not

selected.

5. Set a breakpoint by right-clicking on the line number and selecting

Set Breakpoint.

6. Click on Run (Run menu) in the Insight debugger to run the

application software.

7. Click on Registers (View menu) to display the processor registers.

8. Right-click on an instruction’s line number and choose Set

Breakpoint to set a breakpoint.