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January 2006, Issue 186

Third-Generation Rabbit
A Look at the Rabbit 4000


DEBUGGING SUPPORT

The last major additions to the CPU are the breakpoints. Seven are provided in the Rabbit 4000.

Each breakpoint can be triggered on a physical address match for reads, writes, or execution in either System or User mode. Any bits of the address can be masked off and excluded from the match. You can even force a breakpoint to be pending, which makes it act like a single-step trap.