Debugger board for P4 ECMs
Swayze
kswayze at bellsouth.net
Fri Feb 18 13:46:21 GMT 2000
would it be possible to use this as an 'emulator' to setup and 'tune' the
.bin on the fly? If so I'm in.
........
> I can dump and alter memory, I/O, and registers including the PC. I can
> also run simple programs written in an interpreted language. There's
> currently no disassembler because all code in the ECM is part of the
> debugger. It's easy enough to work from a listing instead. Plus, a
> desktop system could do a much better job of disassembling. There's
> also no single step because the P4/HC11 doesn't support that in
> hardware. There are tricks to single stepping on such systems. I now
> know enough about the P4 hardware to try one.
>
> The timer chip on the board is useful for simulating EST, MAF, VSS, and
> VATS signals. Because it uses the same clock as everything in the ECM,
> any ECM timer values will be rock solid steady.
>
> This board could be used on an ECM running an engine. You'd get a
> serial interface to a laptop separate from the ALDL interface. This
> would require grafting debugger software onto GM's software.
>
>
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