Tools : xIDE

This document discusses the typical steps in starting a debugging session for an EM250 application.

As always, make sure that the Insight Adapter is connected to the network and that all connectors are firmly attached.

1. Be sure that the Emulator setting in the build options for your project target point to the current IP address of the InSight Adapter [ISA] you’re going to be using for the debug session.
2. Change the preprocessor options to add DISABLE_WATCHDOG.

NOTE: All of the issues below are fixed in xIDE 2.1.1.

Problem: Auto-discovery of InSight Adapters (“ISAs” or “SIF Pods”) by TCP broadcast doesn’t detect any adapters.*
Tracked by Ember as: Case 10603
Workaround: Add the ISA manually by specifying its IP address or hostname (if you have an /etc/hosts alias or a DNS server entry to resolve the hostname automatically to an IP).

If xIDE refuses to start the IDE and instead reports an error dialog explaining that it was unable to locate your license file, this is usually a sign that either your license is not in the correct folder or has expired. As far as troubleshooting the first of these two causes:

• The expected location for the license file is in the “licence” (note the British spelling) subdirectory of the folder where “xIDE for EM250” was installed. By default, this installation is rooted at C:\Program Files\Ember\xIDE_EM250, but you may have changed it to a custom location during installation.

From the xIDE window, select Tools>Options>Editor and select "Multiple Document Interface (MDI) style". Note that this change will not take effect until you restart xIDE.

When you restart xIDE, open a project and open a source file from within this project. xIDE by default will open the files within a maximized window. Click on the maximize button to unmaximize the window. Multiple source files can then be cascaded manually by dragging the windows around the xIDE file viewer pane.