µVision4 User's Guide

This User's Guide describes the µVision^® IDE & Debugger. It contains the following chapters:

• About µVision describes the major µVision features and folder structure.
• User Interface describes the menus, the toolbar, and the window concept.
• Creating Applications describes the creation of projects and multiple-projects, features to edit and compile source files, fix errors and warnings, and generate executable code. This chapter includes a section with advanced techniques such as invoking external tools, creating a custom Device Database, or including library modules.
• Utilities describes built-in utilities such as Find in Files or the Source Browser, and shows options to attach third-party utilities such as PC-Lint or software version control systems.
• Debugging describes the µVision debugger, the debugging windows and dialogs, and expressions that can be used in debugging commands. The chapter includes a section with advanced debugging techniques for accessing or simulating peripherals.
• Debug Commands describes the µVision debug commands and their usage from the Command window.
• Debug Functions describes built-in functions, user-functions, and signal-functions, which extended the debugging capabilities of µVision.
• Simulation describes and provides examples of signal-functions for simulating the input/output of digital, analog, and communication signals.
• Flash Programming describes the configuration options for downloading applications to Flash, provides information about Flash programming algorithms, and explains the use of pre-download scripts for pre-configuring a device.
• Dialogs describes screen fields, buttons, and parameters.
• Example Programs describes the standard example projects that are included in each toolkit.
• Command Line describes the options for invoking µVision from the command prompt or from a batch file.
• Appendix provides information about product licensing, file types, Device Database parameters, and error messages.

Revision History

• October 2011: Adapted to latest changes.
• September 2010: Logic Analyzer improvements.
• September 2009: Initial revision for µVision4.