Breakpoints

Univers supports an unlimited amount of active breakpoints without decreasing the simulation speed. Many different breakpoint types are available which can be set and removed in the following Univers windows: Application-, Disassembly-, Memory-, Register- and Variable- window. Univers includes a centralized overview of all breakpoints, this is extremely convenient in a multi core project.

Breakpoints on large C-'structs' and large 'arrays' are fully supported. Breakpoints can be enabled and disabled (in any window) to keep the location of the breakpoint.

When an execution breakpoint is hit in a multi core system, the simulation stops before the instruction is executed. Instructions on other cores which should have started at the same moment in time are also not yet executed. This is independent on which core the breakpoint is set. It results in real multi core debugging, where each processor immediately stops, which is often not the case during target debugging.