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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 29, 2008
William C. Moyer, Dripping Springs, TX (US);
Alistair P. Robertson, Glasgow, GB;
Jimmy Gumulja, Austin, TX (US);
William C. Moyer, Dripping Springs, TX (US);
Alistair P. Robertson, Glasgow, GB;
Jimmy Gumulja, Austin, TX (US);
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A method uses an integrated circuit having a debug status register. The integrated circuit is for being debugged by a hardware debugger external to the integrated circuit and has a processing unit for executing debug software. The debug status register is coupled to the processing unit and is for being coupled to the hardware debugger. The method includes updating the debug status register with hardware status flags arising from running the hardware debugger and software status flags arising from running the debug software. The method further includes masking locations in the debug status register where the hardware status flags are located from being read by the debug software while allowing the hardware status flags and the software status flags to be read by the hardware debugger. This is particularly useful in using the hardware debugger in debugging the debug software.
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