I think the nature of the problems also tends to influence what you do. My
real job involves working with big software systems on Unix and Windows
based computers. The standard debugging tools (type 2) work well in this
environment (mostly). However in an embedded environment timing and
interaction with external devices is often very important and the extra
facilities of an ICE are often a real advantage

In particular, I've just moved from an ICEPIC to an ICE 2000 the ICEPIC did
not have any sort of the trace, the ICE 2000 has a very very good trace. I
would not want to go back. So often it is good to be able to look at how did
I get hear, or to feed external inputs into the trace display and see how
they impact the software. In particular being able to see the effect that
interrupts have on things like timing etc. makes sorting out those oddball
special cases much easier.

Andy