ST7MDT5-EMU2B Emulator User Manual 3 - STVD7
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Using the Configuration Setup dialog box (available from the MCU Configuration dialog box), you can also control what type of MCU configuration information is restored from a workspace file (*.wsp).
Debug context and Build context
There are two STVD7 contexts, the build context and the debug context. Until now, in creating a workspace, and defining your project settings, you have been in the build context. To proceed step—configuring your MCU—you need to change to the debug context.
Briefly, the two contexts are different in that:
• In the build context, you can open and close workspaces and build or re-build the application executable file.
• In the debug context you set the emulated MCU configuration (this step is described in Section 3.12
on page 36) and debug the executable file created while in the build context.
3.11.1 Build Context
The build context is the context set when starting STVD7. In this context, it is not necessary to be connected to an emulator and the debug commands are not available. You can also edit the source files of an application and perform the use the Build command to perform compile and link actions in an interactive and iterative way to re-build the application executable file.
3.11.2 Debug Context
In this context, the following debug actions can be carried out:
• Loading, running and stopping the application.
• Defining the MCU configuration (MCU options and memory mapping).
• Viewing source and disassembled code.
• Setting instruction breakpoints with a counter and/or condition.
• Setting data breakpoints.
• Viewing local variables, memory and ST7 registers.
• Viewing history of execution from the trace buffer or with the Call Stack feature analyzing the performance of a piece of code.
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