In case anybody was wondering, unchecking these "Freeze on Halt" 
checkboxes caused the PWM outputs to resume switching during program halt.


Mark


Mark E. Skeels wrote:
> Oops, need a tag.....
>
> Mark
>
>
> Mark E. Skeels wrote:
>   
>> List,
>>
>> MpLab Rev 8.43, PIC24H. PICkit 3.
>>
>> Under "Debugger|Settings" there is a tab called "Freeze on Halt"
>>
>> Early on in the dev process I discovered that PWM outputs continue to 
>> run when you pause program execution, so that I could stop the program 
>> and observe registers, etc w/o disabling the PWM output switching. I do 
>> this a lot.
>>
>> Because of this, I never looked at the state of these peripherals in the 
>> Freeze on Halt tab.
>>
>> I believe Murphy has struck....I have taken out several PWM output FETS 
>> by halting execution; this has not happened before.
>>
>> Upon examination, I find that all the peripherals are now set to halt on 
>> program halt. I don't know what they were set to before, nor how they 
>> might have changed.
>>
>> My question/assumption is that if you enable the proper peripherals to 
>> run here, the PWM outputs will continue to switch during a program halt; 
>> say for debugging/single stepping.
>>
>> Is that true?
>>
>> How does mplab accomplish the halt?
>>
>>   
>>     
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