In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, Capt. Quirk wrote:

Dan there isn't a Debug function like the BS2 on the SX. Debug is possible with the BS2 series, because it has an eeprom that controls the pic or sx chip on a BS2 and thats also the reason the BS2 is so much slower than the SX. 

We use the SX-Key to to real-time debuging and SX-Sim to measure the time a routine takes and how many cycles it consumes. Unfortunatly the sx-key only allows 1 "BREAK" statement to be used at a time, so we get around it by calling a subroutine that contains the "BREAK" statement. You declare it like this:

BREAK_NOW          Sub     0

 

When you call the Subroutine, just add the line BREAK_NOW, without a GOSUB.

 

[1](then the sub routine is)[/1]

BREAK_NOW:
BREAK
RETURN

Then use as many WATCH statements you need to follow any of the variables like this:

(I add them before the subroutine declerations)

WATCH Var, #of Bits, UDEC  (unsigned decimal) look under help

Also, there is more code examples within the SX-Key directory, inside the Examples folder and then under SXB.

I wasted a lot of time trying to create some sort of SX-Debug. Just learn how to use the SX-Key Debug feature and SX-Sim and you will be able to do more than the BS2 Debug can.

Bill

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