ST626XCKITEU STMicroelectronics, ST626XCKITEU Datasheet - Page 26

• Manufacturer Part Number: ST626XCKITEU
• Manufacturer: STMicroelectronics

Specifications of ST626XCKITEU

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Using The Starter Kit Board as a Hardware Simulator
6 USING THE STARTER KIT BOARD AS A HARDWARE SIMULATOR
WGDB6, the ST6 debugger that runs under Windows, lets you test your programs without
having to program the EPROM of your target ST6. Depending how much information you
want, and how close to real life you want your test environment to be, you can use WGDB6 in
one of three ways:
• As a software simulator. If you use WGDB6 as a simulator, you need not attach any addi-
• With an ST6 hardware emulator. Emulators are hardware systems that act as your target
• With the Starter Kit board as a hardware simulator. This is a cross between the above two.
This section describes the third option, how to use the Starter Kit board as a hardware simu-
lator.
You can use the Starter Kit board to emulate any ST6252, ST6253, ST6255, ST6260,
ST6262, ST6263 or ST6265 microcontroller. Note, however that you must use the pre-pro-
grammed ST6265 microcontroller, labelled DEMOK65 supplied with the kit for hardware sim-
ulation. Thus, when simulating programs designed for other microcontrollers, make sure that
you do not use resources that are not available on the microcontroller your application is de-
signed for.
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tional hardware to your PC. The ST6 simulator program, that comes with WGDB6 and is
run when you run WGDB6/Simulator, simulates the execution of your program, letting you
step through the code and see what happens as the program runs. WGDB6 simulator
includes Wave Form Editor, which simulates the output of the pins on your target ST6 in
relation to inputs that you define, enabling you to see how its peripherals react to the inputs
they receive.
microcontroller, at the same time capturing detailed information, such as which areas of
memory are accessed by the program and what happens when they are accessed. In this
case, WGDB6/Emulator provides an interface between the emulator and your PC, display-
ing data captured by the emulator and letting you implement the WGDB6 features in the
emulator, such as software or hardware breakpoints.
The WGDB6 software simulator simulates the execution of your program, but each time
the data space is accessed, it accesses that of the ST6 that is plugged into your Starter Kit
board. Thus, using the Starter Kit board with WGDB6, you can view how the real micro-
controller peripherals behave when your program is executed.