Herbert Graf wrote:

>>>How can you possibly judge anything you didn't get your hands on ????
>>>Stef Mientki
>>>
>>>
>>Simple - all the embedded apps I've ever done are so dependent on
>>real-world external events and
>>timing that any simulator would not have been of any practical
>>help, and would have saved no time
>>over doing it methodically on a real chip. And this was in the
>>days of UVB-Eraseable devices - no
>>flash!
>>
>>
>
>        I guess it depends on what you are doing. Many of my projects were heavily
>tested with the simulator, most external events can be simulated using the
>stimulus files. The only project I did where the simulator wasn't too
>helpful was interfacing to an IDE hard drive, and there reason there was
>simply figuring out what the hard drive was capable of, the PIC code was
>relatively simple. TTYL
>
That are indeed the cases where a simulator has no benefit.
I used hardware debugging recently, creating a DA converter with an
analog input. Because I didn't (and still don't) understand all the
practical details/limitations, it was of no help to use the simulator.
Stef Mientki


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