Setting up and using the simulator

HEW comes with a software simulator, allowing you to run your code on the PC before downloading it to the target system. The simulator is not perhaps as good as some but will certainly allow you to trace program execution, examine the compiled object code and examine the stae of memory and peripherals. One feature that seems to be lacking is the ability to time execution of code blocks, however, the timers registers can be examined providing a similar result.

Before you can use the simulator, you will need to perform a couple of steps.

First, the