Hardware breakpoints

If your target supports hardware breakpoints, you can set breakpoints on code stored anywhere. You can also set a breakpoint that is triggered when a specified variable reaches a certain value, this is sometimes referred to as a watchpoint. The number of hardware breakpoints that you can set depends on the support provided by your debug target.

To see details of the hardware breakpoints available to you:

  1. Select Breakpoints Hardware Show Break Capabilities of Hardware from the Code window Debug menu.

Click on the following links for more information about the hardware breakpoints that you can set:

Unconditional breakpoint

Conditional breakpoint

Breakpoint on data value