Texas Instruments MSP50C614 manual Emulator Options

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Software Emulator

Init RAM : Initializes the data memory values to zero including tag bits.

Init Registers : Initializes all the system registers (excluding accumulators) to zero except PC which is initialized to start vector.

Init Accumulators : Initializes all the accumulators to zero.

Init All : This menu option initializes all internal registers and all RAM location in the chip. It also resets the cycle counter. The program counter is set at the value indicated by the start vector at address 0x7FFF.

5.6.6Emulator Options

The Software emulator has some user setup options. The first four options are to setup screen fonts for CPU window, RAM Window, Program Window and Project Window. The Verbose C± ± menu selection can be toggled to inhibit the insertion of extraneous comment lines in the assembly code generated by the C± ± compiler. The Debugging option is checked, the monitor routine output is sent to a dump file.

The Misc... menu option allows the user to set a certain number of options for the emulator. When this option is clicked, a dialog box appears (Figure 5±27).

The Chip Select... option allows the users to force a choice between the MSP50P60 and MSP50P614/MSP50C614 development systems. Note that the development systems are automatically detected when the software is started, as long as the development board is connected and powered up. Default is MSP50P614.

Windows related options are available in the Windows menu as shown in Figure 5±28.

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Texas Instruments MSP50C614 manual Emulator Options