ST7MDT5-EMU2B Emulator User Manual 1 - Introduction
1 INTRODUCTION
Note:
Thanks for choosing ST7! This manual will help you get started with the ST7MDT5-
EMU2B emulator kit.
The ST7MDT5-EMU2B emulator allows you to control the execution of programs that you have written for the ST72141 MCU and assists you in debugging your application hardware as well as your software. The ST7MDT5-EMU2B kit comes with a new 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.
If you come across any terms or abbreviations you do not understand, you can check their meaning in the Glossary on page 57 .
Note:
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 ST7MDT5-Active Probe, dedicated to the family, which constitutes the physical link between the emulator and your application.
When receiving the ST7MDT5-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:
ST7-HDS2 resources,
ST7MDT5-Active Probe resources,
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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