The main difference between embedded software and PC
software is there is NO room for uncertainty........
If it is going to fail or possibly fail than you have
to write code that works in those condition. Generally
blinking led is fine and straight forward but when it
comes to interrupts and the orchestra than the ball
game is different. In MCU like PIC you can use USART
to print out areas of problem in your program. States
or unhandled condition can be printed throught the
UART when it is a REAL clock speed. No need to run the
ICD2 or ICE since it may interrupt the timing of the
chip? Anyway I believe Wouter  has written some
program to print out the RAM contents through the
USART periodically. That would help you identify the
problematic areas.

John

--- Tamas Rudnai <tamas.rudnai@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I have a problem on my project that when I debug my
> code it is absolutely
> perfect, however, in the real world it seems that
> there are just much more
> things that I did not take into account. My problem
> is that as far as I know
> there is no way to track down what's going on even
> using a hardware debug
> station -- but I may wrong. So that the PIC needs to
> be run in the real
> clock speed while I would need to watch the input
> and output signals as a
> logic analyzer and see the code flow so that I can
> have a chance to detect
> why my code enters to the bad state.
> 
> I thought that I am lucky a bit because I can record
> the input signal using
> the sound card on my PC and put it to a WAV file, so
> that I could analyze
> it, which has already been done and still do not
> have the answer for the
> why. That's why I would like to convert it to
> stimulus file to be able to
> debug. Is anybody done something similar? Is there
> any software or tool that
> already doing this? Is that a bad idea or have a
> simpler way to do? (I would
> appreciate any thought on this).
> 
> Thanks,
> Tamas
> 
> 
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