FC11 Serial Debugging

[jay_dee]

Hi FC team,
Do you have getting started notes on the hardware serial de-bugging features of FC 11.

I've found the Serial Monitor funtion, under runtime tools and the wiki example. Which I think is a tool to allow Hardware to send/recieve data directly from a Console, rather than using a 3rd party console tool.

The FC11 release notes state Serial debugging allows you to pause your program as it runs in hardware and see the status of variables in your project.
Is this another feature beyound what serial monitor offers? thanks, J.

[medelec35]

Hello
Serial debugging is ICD and you can pause and control the hardware instead of simulation.
When you select Run within the Debug ribbon, then your hardware will run.
If you single step then the function you see within the simulator, will be the same function active on the hardware.
For Example LED on, read the port pin, control the port pin etc.
The variables shown within Flowcode will be the actual variables of the hardware.

The serial monitor is complete different.
you are correct, It just allows Flowcode console to act like A data terminal like PUTTY, Realterm etc.
Any data sent from hardware will be shown on the console. and sent from the console will be sent to your hardware.

[Steve-Matrix]

ICD is currently only available using Matrix E-Blocks (v2 or v3) boards, but there are plans to extend this to other boards such as Arduino and ESP.