Forum Post: RE: how to set the hw breakpoints/watchpoints by sw without using a JTAG debugger?

Hi Galip,

Typically we think of breakpoints as IDE-only i.e. we manually have to set BPs at certain locations. However it would be neat to programmatically trigger a breakpoint. Naturally we can do this with AET but not every chip has AET capabilities.

The good news is we can do this with the software breakpoint opcode - each TI Instruction Set Architecture has one.

Here is some code we use to apply programmatic software breakpoints, 

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Software_Breakpoints_in_the_IDE

For more details you can check desauza's answer.

http://e2e.ti.com/support/development_tools/code_composer_studio/f/81/t/196190.aspx

Best Regards

Ahmet Ç.