Hi Guys, Ok, I'm stuck, and need some advice.
I have been redesigning a project from PIC24's to run on the PSoC. It has take a couple of months to get the hang of using the Designer software, write the beginning of my program, and put together a prototype on one of their development boards. Now for my problem.
There is no debugger on this thing! I prgrammed the chip, and then hit the debug menu, and the entire thing was grayed out. In pure puzzlement I started searching around, and it looks like you also need to go out and buy a separate $375 debugger! And it isn't just a debugger, it is an ICE so that means you aren't testing on your chip, you are testing on an emulator for the chip. That worries the heck out of me, when there are all sorts of little settings on these things that it would be easy to miss in an emulation.
So, any of ya'll got any experience on these things have any advice? Are there inexpensive (i.e. CHEAP) debuggers out there? I only spent $150 for the Microchip ICD2. I only spent $50 for the Freescale JTAG interface. The boss is considering killing me if we have to go out and spend another $400 bucks just to see if these things work.
Thanks for any help ya'll can give me!
Charlie