At 11:33 AM 9/10/99 , you wrote:
>Sorry about the confusion.
>
>The only problem I have with the AVRs emulation is that what the emulator
>sees from your circuit is not necessarily what the production chip will see.
>Scenix and (I think) the MChip ICD avoid this.
>

You should also note that Microchip produces BONDOUTS for their devices.
We use these in our ICE.

These are ACTUAL PRODUCTION SILICON with extra connections bonded out to
extra pins to give us more control and status information.  These devices
behave just like the real silicon because they ARE the real silicon.  In
addition, the extra control and visibility they provide allows one to
produce a more advanced debugger than is possible with the Scenix or ICD
arrangements (unlimited breakpoints, complex breakpoints, no stack usage,
no code space usage, data breakpoints, trace, timing, break when the stack
over/underflows..).


Jerry Merrill

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