ST7MDTU3-EMU2B Emulator User Manual
1 - Introduction
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1 INTRODUCTION
Thanks for choosing ST7! This manual will help you get started with the
ST7MDTU3-EMU2B emulator kit.
The ST7MDTU3-EMU2B emulator allows you to control the execution of programs
that you have written for the ST7263BKX MCU and assists you in debugging your
application hardware as well as your software. The ST7MDTU3-EMU2B kit comes
with the debugger software package—ST7 Visual Debug—which contains all of the
necessary resources to help you design, develop and debug ST7 application
software running in a real environment.
Note:
If you come across any terms or abbreviations you do not understand, you can check their
meaning in the
Glossary
on page 57.
Please refer to
Section 4.8: Emulation Functional Limitations and Discrepancies
on page 51
for a description of the limitations on the current release of this emulator kit.
The Emulator Package is made up of two main parts:
•
The Hardware Development System (ST7 HDS2), which is the common
mainframe to all ST7 emulators.
•
The ST7MDTU3-Active Probe, dedicated to the family, which constitutes the
physical link between the emulator and your application.
Note:
When receiving the ST7MDTU3-EMU2B development tool, please refer to the
Delivery
Checklist
on page 9 to confirm that all of the contents of the package are present.
The emulator performs two main functions:
•
It replaces the microcontroller in the application, by means of an emulation
probe that is plugged into the application in place of the emulated MCU.
•
It controls the internal data bus of the emulated microcontroller, providing
arbitration and tracing capabilities on all accesses to any of the following
resources:
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ST7 HDS2 resources,
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ST7MDTU3-Active Probe resources,
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Application resources.
Therefore, you can have the emulator running your software in the application just
as the emulated MCU would do, and have extensive tracing and control
capabilities (i.e. keeping track of what the MCU does, and making it react in a
specific way upon defined conditions).
In this way, it is possible to fully emulate microcontroller resources.
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Summary of Contents for HDS2 Series
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