Features of RealView Debugger
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2.1 RealView Debugger v1.6
RealView Debugger v1.6 provides a range of features for the developer:
•Multi-core debugging
•OS awareness
•Extended Target Visibility (ETV)
•Advanced debugging facilities
•Trace, Analysis, and Profiling on page2-3
•Project manager on page 2-4
•RealView Debugger downloads on page2-4.
2.1.1 Multi-core debugging
RealView Debugger v1.6 provides a single debug kernel for mixed ARM and DSP
debugging. The debugger provides full support for synchronized start and stop,
stepping, and cross triggering of breakpoints.
2.1.2 OS awareness
RealView Debugger v1.6 enables you to:
• use RTOS debug including Halted System Debug (HSD)
• interrogate and display resources after execution has halted
• access semaphores and queues
• view the status of the current thread or other threads
• customize views of application threads.
2.1.3 Extended Target Visibility (ETV)
RealView Debugger v1.6 provides visibility of targets such as boards and SoC. Users
can configure targets using board-chip definition files and preconfigured files are
available:
• ARM family files provided as part of the install ation
• customer/partner board files provided through ARM DevZone®.
2.1.4 Advanced debugging facilities
RealView Debugger v1.6 provides standard debug views and advanced debugging
features:
• RealView Debugger supports variables of 64-bit type ‘long long’ throughout the
user interface (new in v1.6).