You Are Troubleshooting an Embedded System and Are Debugging a Process

question 33

Multiple Choice

You are troubleshooting an embedded system and are debugging a process that is running on the system. You have a logic analyzer that can show you the contents of all the CPU registers and program memory. You need to determine the location of the next instruction the CPU will execute. Where should you look?

• A) program counter
• B) reset vector
• C) L2 cache
• D) data register

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