There are plenty of views to choose from: source-level modules, assembly-level code, watches, inspectors, on-chip registers, C call stack, variables, breakpoints, execution trace, session log, memory dumps and more.

Drop a few expressions into the Watch Window. Decompose arrays or structures across several inspectors. With ChipView-x96 you can simply point & click to follow a linked list.

Each type of ChipView-x96's views can be customized by font, colour and style. Context-sensitive menus can be popped-up with a right button click, or pulled-down from the Local item of the main menu to control view-specific debugging properties.

Simulator Features

The ChipView-x96 Instruction-Set Simulator supports both 16-bit and 24-bit opcodes to let you debug your x96 program in a safe, crashproof environment.  Running on your PC with no additional hardware, this full-featured engine achieves near real-time speed of a 80C196 or 80C296 CPU.

On-chip features such as interrupt structure, and windowing are also simulated.    Interrupts may be generated using the Virtual Hardware Setup dialog to permit testing and timing of interrupt-driven routines.

The Instruction-Set Simulator can collect megabytes of trace frames, complete with time stamp information.  Code and data spaces can be mapped with 256 byte granularity.    The entire address space of the 24-bit family can be simulated, enabling any 196 or 296 program to be debugged effortlessly.

ROM Monitor Features

The RISM-based ROM Monitor version of ChipView-x96 interfaces directly to any Intel evaluation or demo target board running RISM.  Assembly source of the RISM monitor kernel is provided to permit user-customized implementations.

ChipView-x96 is the High-Level Debugger replacement for Intel's ECM host software.

RISM requirements:

• 24 bytes RAM, approximately 600 bytes ROM for RISM monitor kernel
• 9600 baud - 115 Kbaud serial port (on-chip or off-chip)
• Modem DTR, RI signals (optional)
• Interrupts: NMI and/or serial receive interrupt
• RAM for user program and user interrupts (remap interrupt ROM to RAM)

Emulator Interface Features

Custom versions of ChipView-x96 are available for popular in-circuit emulators. Breakpoint, trace and configuration setup, in addition to trace frame display are among the customisations made for each ICE vendor's hardware.

ChipView-196 screen shot - Click to enlarge image

• Key-compatible with Borland's popular Turbo Debugger
• Over 3 MB of Context-sensitive help
• New Windows controls for easy mouse use, as well as expert modes with short-cut keys
• Conditional breakpoints with pass counts & action selection
• All variables displayed with type & scope information
• Built-in C expression evaluator handles arbitrary prompt input
• Total configuration save/restore including breakpoints, watches, lists, window layout, macros, etc.
• One click Build command to fix & test code fast, as well as one click Edit to edit as you go
• High-Level function Call Stack window with parameters and types
• DataTips browse C structures, unions, arrays, and pointers (linked lists) by simply placing the mouse cursor over the expression
• OLE drag & drop allows most debugging operations to be performed without touching the keyboard
• DataDrop allows the user to drop values into DataZone variables to change their contents
• SFRTips instantly describe special function register modes in plain text
• Powerful scripting capabilities provided through the use of Microsoft's ActiveX scripting engines, with over 100 callable ChipView functions (VBScript and JScript engines included)
• An OLE automation interface that allows you to perform such functions as unit testing, without having to interact with the ChipView user interface
• RTOS awareness supports 3rd party RTOS DLLs (using industry standard SDS API) for task based debugging