Post by thread:Debugging code without an ICE

At the moment I debug the difficilt problems in my PIC code by sending the debug values as RS232 chars to my PC running Procomm and log the results. While this works OK its slow to make changes. What other techniques can be used in this debugging enviroment. I have never seen a debug monitor used with PICS I gather the lack of ram and code space restricts this type of debugging to the larger 8031 and 68hc11 type processors. I would welcome any good suggestions on speeding up the debug cycle Thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------- Sender Ian Smart Location Electronic Structure Of Materials Centre Flinders University Adelaide Australia Email spam_OUTian.smartTakeThisOuTcc.flinders.edu.au -------------------------------------------------------------------

On Fri, 22 Sep 1995, ian smart wrote: > > What other techniques can be used in this debugging enviroment. Ian, I have been using a logic analyzer as the debugging tool for my 16C57 project. I have some spare I/O so I output diagnostic codes to flag the operation of individual segments of code. I also output results as needed so that I can check them. The logic analyzer is great because I can observe the external events as well such as serial access to an A/D. Logic analyzers are expensive but I found an old Tektronics DAS 9100 for $300 in an electronics salvage place. I don't think they knew what they had. Good Luck, Martin Kirk Arizona State University .....mlkKILLspam@spam@asu.edu (602) 582-5718