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
Introduction 1–1
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Introduction
1.1 Overview
The Alpha Microprocessors SROM Mini-Debugger provides basic hardware
debugging capability through the SROM serial port of the Alpha microprocessor.
Using only an SROM containing the mini-debugger, a clock source, a CPU chip, and
a few gates, you can exercise the device connected to the CPU to debug cache,
memory, and I/O subsystems until the board is functional enough to support a more
fully featured monitor.
1.2 General Features
The mini-debugger has the following features:
• Basic hardware debugging capability
• A monitor that can point to hardware addresses and exercise them
• The ability to examine and deposit memory
• A case-independent command language
• Support for variable baud rates and processor speeds