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Hardware Debugger: ADS
Figure 1-7. Text-Based Interface of the Simulator
1.5 Hardware Debugger: ADS
Like a simulator, a Suite56 hardware debugger, often referred to as the ADS or application
development system, allows you to evaluate a target digital signal processor
comprehensively and to evaluate how your algorithms behave with respect to your target
hardware.
To manage input and output, a Suite56 debugger offers highly advantageous facilities. An
ADS can, in fact, read data into the target device while running; it can also read data out of
a target device and into a host while running. That is, the hardware debugger behaves like
a device driving the host port to offer you much better control over simulated I/O.
A Suite56 ADS supports source-level symbolic debugging of both C and assembly
programs, and it offers debugging commands to support simultaneous development with
multiple devices.
Figure 1-8 shows you the hardware components (host-bus interface card, interface cables,
command converter, and application development module) of a typical Suite56 ADS
hardware debugger. In addition to the visible components, the system also includes
software running on your development platform (the host computer) and in the command
converter.
command line
help line
session window