User`s manual

1.1 System Components and Features
1.1.7 Software Support
Software support code, consisting of a debug monitor and Windows NT ARC
firmware is contained in a 1MB flash ROM. The monitor provides functions
that allow you to:
• Download files through serial and Ethernet ports and diskette.
• Load data from a ROM through the debug monitor.
• Examine and deposit the EB164 system registers, a few 21164 internal
processor registers (IPRs), and I/O mapped registers.
• Examine and modify DRAM and I/O mapped memory.
• Disassemble CPU instructions in memory.
• Transfer control to programs in memory.
• Perform native debugging operations, including breakpoints and single
stepping.
• Perform full source-level debugging operations by using DECladebug
software running on a host communicating through an Ethernet
connection.
• Perform a memory image dump.
1.1.8 Component Layout
Figure 1–2 shows the EB164 board component layout and dimensions.
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