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You will need to do small modification of your Arduino board.
Buy an external debugger device (for example, AVR Dragon) and connect it to your Arduino board. In reality the ways to obtain debugger functionality with Arduino are: It is true that these IDEs contain debugger, but there is no way for your program to communicate with the debugger. There is one misconception about Arduino debugging which seems to be quite common - that if you use a real IDE, for example Eclipse or Atmel Studio, to develop your Arduino programs, you will be also able to debug it as well. And for those people debugger is a useful thing. But Arduino became so popular that it is now used by almost everyone who needs to do something with microcontrollers, including programmers. Omitting the debugger is a valid design decision and it is true that for the intended "non-programmer" audience debugger could be just too complicated. It is just that the Arduino platform was designed without debugger - there is no debugger interface in the IDE and there is no direct hardware support on the board (in the hardware) either. Microcontrollers normally have similar debugging capabilities as the "big computers" these days. You may think "OK, this is microcontroller I just have to live with this". #Visual micro stops uploading code#
True, it is possible to debug your programs this way, but there are ocasions when stepping through the code or looking at the variables at certain moment can save you a lot of time.
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After you run your program, there is no way to see what is happening inside other than by printing messages to the serial monitor and/or blinking LEDs. When someone with programming experience from other computer platform starts with Arduino, he or she usually finds it surprising that there is no debugger.
This debugger has some limitations, as described at the end of the article, but I believe it will be usefull for many people. It works for Arduinos based on ATmega328 microcontroller (tested with Arduino Uno) and also for Arduinos with ATmega2560 or ATmega1280 (Arduino Mega). It is just a piece of code added to your Arduino program. It does not need any modification of the Arduino board or external hardware. This debugger can be used to step through your code, place breakpoints, view variables etc. This article describes source level debugger for Arduino.
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