Texas Instruments MSP50C614 manual Software Emulator

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Software Emulator

Fast Run : This menu option, (key equivalent: CTRL+F9), allows the user to execute a portion of the program window, until a breakpoint is encountered. The windows are not refreshed until the program stops, so that the execution speed is maximized. If no breakpoint is encountered, the user can stop the program by hitting the STOP option (CTRL+F10) in the debug menu. Since the emulator typically executes 20,000 instructions before it briefly releases control to Windows, the response to a stop command may take a few seconds. The number of instructions executed at a time in Fast Run mode is a parameter in the EMUC6xx.ini file.

[Local Parameters]

nb_fast_instruction =20000

Run : This menu option, (key equivalent: CTRL+F8), allows the user to execute a portion of the program windows, until a breakpoint is encountered. The windows are refreshed after every instruction (animation), so that the execution speed is rather slow. If no breakpoint is encountered, the user can stop the program by hitting the STOP option (CTRL+F10) in the debug menu.

Stop : This menu option, (key equivalent: CTRL+F10), allows the user to stop execution of a program that was running fast or animated. Do not use this option to halt a program that is running internally: use the ªstop internalº option instead.

Inspect : This menu option is explained in section 5.6.3 under Inspect

Window.

Show/Hide Op Codes : This menu option can be toggled to show or hide the opcodes in the program window.

Find Hardware Breakpoint : Finds a hardware breakpoint from the list of hardware breakpoint. A Hardware Breakpoint dialog box is opened and the presently enabled hardware breakpoint is selected as active. This option is useful if you have multiple hardware breakpoint list but like to find which is currently active.

Find Next Breakpoint : Finds the next software breakpoint from present search position (cyan highlighted text). If no software breakpoint is found, it gives an error Error: No more software breakpoint. There is no limit on software breakpoints. This operation does not change the program counter value.

EPROM Program : This menu option launches the EPROM Programming

Dialog (Figure 5±24), that allows the user to program a project on a chip.

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