Debugging Global Variables

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Erich Styger

If I’m debugging my application in Eclipse or CodeWarrior, it shows in the Variables view the local and global variables of the current Thread and stack frame only:

Debug View with Variables View

This makes sense as this is usually where my focus is. And this is good from a performance point of view: The debugger does not need to read a lot of other variables from the target which I’m not interested in. But the question is: how to show the variables which are in other files if I really need to look at them?

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PID with Processor Expert

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Erich Styger

In my class at the university I’m using a microcontroller attached to a DC motor from Maxon. The job of the microcontroller is to implement (among other things) a PID controller for the motor speed (or position). In the lab we implement the PID and all the related parts of the control loop without Processor Expert. But it easily can be done as well with Processor Expert components, as described here.

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CDE RTOS Hacking: Show it as an RTOS component

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Erich Styger

Technically, a normal user component can implement any RTOS. This is what I did with the Micrium MicroC/OS-II component. That way the component shows up in the ‘Embedded Components’ group. But how to make it showing up as RTOS component inside the ‘Operating System’ group as the FreeRTOS component? What I want is this: to show the RTOS component under the ‘Operating System’ group of my project: