Event Breakpoints
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Event Breakpoint
An Event Breakpoint suspends program execution when a specific hardware event occurs. Events include things such as watchdog timer overflow, sleep instruction execution, and clock mode switch, to name just a few.

Data Breakpoint Activities

Some Example Uses

  • View machine state after stack overflow/underflow
  • View machine state after watchdog timeout
  • Catch resets

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