User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- Getting Started
- 2.1 Overview
- 2.2 Hardware Required
- 2.3 Hardware Debug Features
- 2.4 Setting Up the SROM Serial Port Connection
- 2.5 Starting and Running the Mini-Debugger
- 2.6 Sample Session on the EB64
- 2.7 Sample Session on the EB64+ and the AlphaPC 6...
- 2.8 Sample Session on the EB66 and EB66+
- 2.9 Sample Session on the EB164
- 2.10 Sample Session on the AlphaPC 164
- 2.11 Sample Session on the AlphaPC 164LX
- 2.12 Onboard Machine Check Handler
- SROM Mini-Debugger Command Set
- Support, Products, and Documentation
- Index
Getting Started 2–1
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Getting Started
2.1 Overview
The Alpha Microprocessors Motherboard Software Design Tool Kit (Alpha SDK)
includes the Alpha Microprocessors SROM Mini-Debugger binary files suitable for
programming an SROM. For information about how to program an SROM, refer to
your ROM programmer manual.
After the SROM is programmed, it can be placed into the SROM socket on the
motherboard. In addition, the mini-debugger is also available in the standard SROM
provided with the Alpha microprocessor motherboards. It can be invoked after the
standard SROM has completed CPU and system initialization and before it begins
execution of the image loaded from ROM. Refer to the Alpha microprocessor
motherboard user’s guide for more information about how to access the mini-
debugger. It usually requires setting a jumper.
2.2 Hardware Required
To run the mini-debugger, you need the following items:
• An Alpha microprocessor motherboard or a system based on the Alpha
microprocessor architecture with a connection from the microprocessor SROM
interface to the host system’s serial port (for example, an RS232)
• A host system (a terminal or workstation)
• An SROM containing the SROM Mini-Debugger image