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From: ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Intel Logic Analyzers
Message-ID: <957@micomvax.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 88 15:10:46 GMT
References: <303@fenix.Atlanta.NCR.COM> <477@pcrat.UUCP>
Reply-To: ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn)
Organization: Philips Electronics Ltd. (TDS - Montreal) St. Laurent P.Q., Canada
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Keywords: ditto

In article <477@pcrat.UUCP> rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes:
>...
>Although some people prefer the user interface of the HP64000,
>we found that the following Intel features made their system preferable:
>
>...	- Bond-out processor chips, true emulation
>	   Our hardware designs are so timing critical that other
>	   emulators and analyzers we tried wouldn't work properly,

Be aware that unfortunately the Intel 80386 I2ICE makes use of the 386's
onoard break registers, so its break-pointing is less flexible than on the
286.  It also requires to insert wait states when doing a trace (i.e.
storing a history) and is thus timing intrusive.

Ray Dunn.  ..{philabs, mnetor}!micomvax!ray