Debugging Embedded Microprocessor Systems

Table of contents

1. Cover image
2. Title page
3. Table of Contents
4. Copyright
5. Introduction
6. Chapter 1: Tools for Debugging Embedded Systems
   1. Test Equipment
7. Chapter 2: Adding Diagnostic Helps to the Target System
   1. Trace Buffer
   2. Other Methods of Generating Trace Data
8. Chapter 3: General Debugging Tips
   1. Debugging: General Strategies
   2. Debugging Step by Step
9. Chapter 4: Hardware Debug
   1. Tests
   2. Hardware Problems and Solutions
   3. EMI Problems
10. Chapter 5: Debugging the Software
    1. Overview of Programmer Code
    2. Modular Testing
    3. Functional Testing
    4. Debugging
11. Chapter 6: Debugging the Interrupts
    1. New ISR
    2. New ISR
    3. Interrupt Overview
    4. 8031 Interrupt Addresses
    5. Potential Interrupt Problems
    6. UART Transmit Lockup
    7. Interrupt Time
    8. Prioritizing Interrupts
    9. Problems with Vectored Interrupts
    10. Daisy-Chained Interrupts
    11. Missing Interrupts
12. Chapter 7: Debugging in an RTOS Environment
    1. Real-Time Operating System Functions
    2. Interrupts in a Kernel Environment
    3. Priority Inversion
    4. General Preemption Problems
    5. Deadlock
    6. Action Codes
    7. Debugging Tools
13. Chapter 8: Debugging in an Embedded PC Environment
    1. Advantages to Using a PC Platform
    2. Disadvantages to Using a PC Platform
    3. PC Debugging Tools
14. Chapter 9: Debugging Scenarios from the Trenches
    1. A Debugging Scenario Using Action Codes
    2. Debugging a Problem in the PC Environment
    3. An International Incident
    4. Christmas in England (Almost)
    5. California Dreamin’
    6. Would You Like ICE in Your Drink?
15. Appendix 1: Programmer Test Routines
16. Glossary
17. Index