The CAD-UL XDB interface provides an integrated development environment for users demanding complete C++ support, and a superior set of development tools including optimizing compiler, linker and debugger.

The Wind River Tornado interface provides an integrated debugging package that combines a Microtek emulator with Tornado's VxWorks operating system. The combination provides a strong tool for debugging embedded applications.

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• CAD-UL® XDB Interface for PowerPack® In-Circuit Emulators (272K)
• Wind River® Tornado® Interface for Microtek PowerPack® Emulators (183K)

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PowerPack? SLD

All Microtek PowerPack development systems include the powerful SLD (Source Level Debugger) interface. SLD was designed specifically for the dual purposes of source-level debugging and emulator control.

In SLD, high-level language debugging features such as stack browsing and variable inspection are fully integrated with powerful emulator features like clock-level trace and real-time event triggering. This results in debug capabilities not available in other tools, such as event triggering based on high-level variable names, or a clock-level trace with the cursor linked back to the original source code that produced it.

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• View a short SLD Demo.
• View the SLD main screen.

Clock-Level Trace
Full-featured PowerPack emulators contain 128K frames (256K optional) of real-time trace. Unlike many systems, this trace is collected on the system clock edge, not just on bus cycles. Trace displays can pinpoint not only software problems, but also hardware timing problems.

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Complex Triggering
Traditional debuggers generally provide some form of breakpoint management to halt program execution. However, bugs in embedded systems can often be defined only by the occurrence of various combinations of addresses, data values, and hardware control lines. Sometimes additional qualifiers such as NOT, ranging, or masking are essential to fully define a specific event. Full-featured PowerPack systems provide these capabilities.

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