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5 Basic debugging features
Once you have built your application for debugging, you can choose your debugging
instrument and enter the Debug context. In this context, STVD provides access to the
debugging features that are supported by your debugging hardware or instrument. Because
debugging instruments support different features, the commands and views that are
available during debugging will vary based on your hardware configuration. For this reason,
you must select your debug instrument before you can start debugging. For instructions, see
Section 5.1: Selecting the debug instrument.
Once you have selected your debug instrument, you are ready to start debugging. The
debugging features described in this section are available for all hardware configurations:
Simulator, DVP2, DVP3, EMU2B (HDS2), ICD and EMU3 emulators and STice. The
following sections tell you about:
● Section 5.1: Selecting the debug instrument
● Section 5.2: Configuring your target MCU
● Section 5.3: Running an application
● Section 5.4: Editor debug actions
● Section 5.5: Disassembly window
● Section 5.6: Online assembler
● Section 5.7: Memory window
● Section 5.8: Instruction breakpoints
● Section 5.9: Data breakpoints
● Section 5.12: Watch window
● Section 5.10: Call stack window
● Section 5.11: Local variables window
● Section 5.13: Core registers window
● Section 5.14: MSCI tools window
● Section 5.15: Symbols browser
● Section 5.16: Peripheral registers window
● Section 5.17: Memory trace window
● Section 5.18: Online commands
● Section 5.19: Limitations and discrepancies
For other features that are specific to your debug instrument refer to:
● Section 6: Simulator features on page 202 for software simulation without a debug
instrument
● Section 7: In-circuit debugging on page 223 for EMU3 with ICC add-on
● Section 8: DVP and EMU2 (HDS2) emulator features on page 237 for all DVP and
EMU2 emulators
● Section 10: EMU3 emulator features on page 284 — for EMU3 emulators
● Section 9: STice features on page 258 — for STice advanced emulation systems