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Debugging
All versions of the FED C Compilers (WIZ-C Professional and AVIDICY) and WIZ-ASM produce assembler code which is debugged within the environment - the debugging part of the compiler provides . Within FED C the program may be fully debugged, the C Source code is displayed alongside the assembler code and C code may be single stepped or run to a breakpoint.
Variables may be examined in char, int, long or float form, decimal or hex, signed or unsigned, or hex values dumped. For the professional version C types may be examined in source format - for example structures are displayed with member names and contents.
Here are some features of the debugger :
- Full editor with syntax highlighting in color. Follow your code as it steps through the editor
window, view help file information directly from the code
- Set breakpoint on line, jump to label, evaluate memory variables all by single click
- Simulator allows addressed, conditional and timed breakpoints
- Simulator runs up to 50 times faster than DOS based simulators, 10 times faster than some
other Windows based simulators !
- Trace Analyser allows any register or port value to be examined in analogue (graphical),
waveform, or numeric values, check your program directly against your predicted waveforms.
- Debugger allows variables to be examined in byte, word or long form, octal, decimal, hex and floating form, also dump memory areas
- Profiler examines and times called routines - use it to optimise out bottle necks and check
timing loops
- Track errors and jump straight to error lines
- Input stimuli include clocks, direct values and asynchronous serial data.
- Allows full use of 32 bit Windows facilities - controls and long filenames.
- Includes full terminal emulator program and support for in-circuit debugging on all devices
The External Device Debugging facility allows many types of peripheral to be examined whilst the code runs including terminals, displays, I2C, Switches, Keypads etc.
FED C includes a waveform analyser which may be used to examine changing values on the pins of the PICmicro® MCU, or in any internal register.
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