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Overview->Peripherals Used

The debug monitor uses the microcontrollers UART to communicate with the PC and a timer to clock the UART.  By default, Timer 1 is used to clock the UART.

A separate timer (Timer 0) is used for the single stepping process.

All other internal peripherals are available for independent use by the users program.

If an 8052 compatible Timer 2 is available, this can be optionally used to clock the UART instead of Timer 1.  Higher baud rates are possible with this timer.  See InitSerialPort() in the debug monitor source file functions.c.  A couple of lines above this function is an identifier TIMER2BAUD.  If this is defined, Timer 2 will be used to clock the UART.