User`s manual

3-4 Suite56 DSP Tools User’s Manual Motorola
Initializing a Debugging Environment
3.1.5 Setting the Radix
Whether you are using the graphic user interface or the text-based interface, you can set
the radix for the display of the contents of registers before you display them. (The radix is
the basis for computing the value of digits as numbers. For example, the digits 32 in
decimal radix represent the value thirty-two and in hexadecimal radix, they represent
fifty.) In the Suite56 ADS, the default radix for the display of register contents is
hexadecimal. You set the default display radix to another base in the graphic user interface
from the Modify menu by choosing Radix. In the text-based interface, type the command
radix followed by the option to indicate the base you prefer (b for binary, d for decimal,
f for floating-point, h for hexadecimal).
When you enter data by typing , you can control its
radix (regardless of the default display radix) by
preceding it with a radix indicator:
•$ for hexadecimal
•‘ for decimal
•% for binary
3.1.6 Displaying Registers
To display registers in the graphic user interface, from the Windows
menu, choose Register. A dialogue box appears for you to indicate which
registers you want to display. The Suite56 tool will then open a window,
labeled with the device and registers you have chosen, and display the
register names and values.
To display registers in the text-based interface, type the command
display with no
options to display all enabled registers, or with option
on followed by the list of registers
you want to see for a more selective display.