Pbp - icd

[Charles Linquis]

I have always used an ICD2 or ICD3 to program parts. I never "integrated" PBP into MPLAB. I invoke MPLAB only to program bootloaders into the chip.

Now, I would like to take things one step further and actually use the Microchip ICD to figure out where my code is at any given time. I don't need to actually see the PBP line that is executing (although that would be nice).

Watching the ASM lines and being able to insert breakpoints would be good enough.

So - I have an ASM file generated by PBP, and I want to do some debugging. I have tried virtually everything but can't get the debugger to run. Has someone actually done this? If so, do you have a step-by-step?

[rmteo]

Interesting...

[Charles Linquis]

Does your comment mean that everyone else is doing this and I simply am too uninformed to know how, or that it is impossible, or that I'm a fool for even asking, or that the instructions for how to do this is the first item in the forum FAQ?

Which one?

[rmteo]

None of the above. The interesting thing is the lack of responses after almost 100 views - indicating that few here use a very useful tool/methodology for MCU application development.

[Charles Linquis]

I have an enormous (at least in PIC terms) application where I'm using most all of the capabilities of two 18F8723's "strapped together" and communicating with each other. Both chips make heavy use of interrupts (both ASM and PBP).

So many things were going on at one time and the program was hanging. We really wanted to watch the execution but couldn't find a good way.

Everything seems to be working now.

[rmteo]

Based on your description, I would look into a higher spec MCU (possibly a PIC24, dsPIC or PIC32) and also utilize an RTOS such this http://www.avix-rt.com/Products/Spec...ification.html

The developer is very active on the MC forums and the product looks really good.