sarah@laticorp.UUCP (Sarah Groves Hobart) (10/29/87)
I'm looking from recommendations for a good hardware debugger (that is,
where the debugger is an additional piece of hardware you plug in) for
a PC/AT running DOS.
I'm especially interested in debuggers that can trace things without
requiring special compilation--ones that are suitable for situations
where only some source code is available.
Thanks!
Sarah Groves Hobart
{ihnp4,amdahl,sun}!ptsfa!laticorp!sarahaja@i.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (10/31/87)
I have used the Atron ATPROBE and source probe. I thought they were pretty cool products. The probe came with a board that plugs into the 287 socket (the 287 will fit into the top of the cards socket if you want it) The board has 1 meg of memory and loads alll its debugging stuff and tables into that meg. There is a neat little hand-held controller that lets you stop the current program and drop into debugging, or reset the system without cranking the big red switch. (the reset switch is a bit of a pain to hook up, and doesnt have to be hooked up) and there is a rs232 25 pinner thatll hook up EASILY to a terminal/pc so you can use a second screen forr debugging. it is really too cool. I wouldnt advice you use it with Lattice. (i wouldnt advice you use lattice at all!) bu twith msc it kicks. The references to memory stuff is sort of similar to adb rather than dbx. Itll also let you sett breakpoints to stop if, say a certian memory location is either written to, or read from, or toucheed in any way. Its a pretty powerful system. A little expensive though. I think my company paid like $2200 for the thing including software and hardwaare and a 287 socket kludge thinger to work with a compaq 286 portable (its free though) NOTE: i dint get extremely deep into this as i was yanked off what i was doing 3 weeks after we got it. But what i saw i liked. mike aja@i.cc.purdue.eud ^eud^edu