Getting Started Guide for Lauterbach

Introduction

ICD introduction

The ICDs (In-circuit Debugger) are additional circuitry integrated into the processors to debug embedded system's software. They are also known as OCD (On-chip Debuggers). The ICD controls the processor instead of being a duplicate of it like in the case of ICEs (In-circuit Emulators), the advantage is that the processor does not need to be replaced and the same tool can be used to debug different processors.

The on-chip debug system provides the following basic features:

• Read/write memory
• Read/write CPU register
• Single step and real time execution
• Hardware breakpoints and trigger features (not supported by all CPUs)

The In-Circuit Debugger TRACE32-ICD uses these basic features of the on-chip debug system to provide a powerful debug tool that offers:

• Easy high-level and assembler debugging
• Display of internal and external peripherals on a logical level
• On-chip break and trigger support
• RTOS awareness
• Flash programming
• Powerful script language
• Multiprocessor debugging

Additional information

• Lauterbach official website
• Lauterbach official documentation