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    embOS plugin for Visual Studio Code

    The kernel awareness plug-in gives detailed insight into embOS.

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    SEGGER embOS
    1. 1.Thread Aware Debugging
    2. 2.Task sensitivity
    3. 3.embOS object lists
    The image shows a computer screen displaying code and tables related to task management in a software development environment. The left side features a table with information on queues, mutexes, semaphores, memory pools, event objects, and watchdogs, while the right side contains lines of code.

    Thread Aware Debugging

    By default, when halting a target system in the debugger, the current registers (program counter, stackpointer etc.) as well as the current call-stack are shown. When running embOS, most of the time, the system will be in the Idle task. So the chance is fairly high that, when halting the system, it will be in Idle and not much information is gained by seeing the current registers and callstack.

    Thread aware debugging specifies the capability of a debugger to show all existing tasks of embOS, running on the embedded system when the target system is halted by the debugger.

    SEGGER's embOS plug-in for Visual Studio Code provides embOS awareness during debugging sessions. This enables you to inspect the state of several embOS primitives such as the tasks and created embOS objects. Moreover, the embOS plug-in allows you to monitor not only the active tasks, but also inactive tasks, too.

    The embOS plugin for Visual Studio Code is available at the Visual Studio Marketplace.

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    Task sensitivity

    Although Visual Studio Code’s interface is not task sensitive, developers have the option to use the Ozone standalone debugger for this feature.

    With Ozone's interface developers benefit from task sensitivity. In Ozone, Source Code, Disassembly, Registers, and Call Stack windows are task sensitive, meaning it can show general-purpose-register content, and the call stack for the task related to the current position in code. By default, the selected task is the running task, as developers would expect from a debugger. They may, however, examine any task by double-clicking on the corresponding row in the plug-in window. The selected task will then be highlighted and the call stack and preserved general-purpose registers of the suspended task will be rebuilt. More information is available on task sensitivity is available on the Ozone page.


    The image displays system information related to tasks, timers, mailboxes, queues, mutexes, semaphores, memory pools, event objects, watchdogs, and a readers-writer lock, including details such as status, timers, message counts, and waiting tasks for each category.

    embOS object lists

    In addition to the task list, the plug-in provides for all embOS objects if Visual Studio Code version 1.103 or greater is used. These lists can be activated individually and show information specific to the embOS objects. The displayed information includes event objects, mailboxes, memory pools, mutexes, queues, semaphores, timers, and watchdogs.

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