System Inspection

Contents

• Introduction

• Memory Dump

• Peripherals Power

Introduction

This component introduces some miscellaneous functions to help in system inspection and debugging.

Memory Dump sys_inspect.dump_memory()

It is a utility function to dump a certain memory space.

It takes the following keyword argument:

• address the start address of the dump memory space

• size size of data to dumpped

• wordsize display word size of dumped data (32, 16, or 8)

• linesize number of display bytes per line

• disp_text show the printable ascii character of the data.

Example: the following picture shows an example of the memory dump

Peripherals Power

It is a set of utilities that help in inspection of the enabled system peripherals. That could help in power management inspection. The current available methods are:

• sys_inspect.periph_module_list() It lists the whole list of system peripherals and indicate the peripheral along with how many other system actors are using it. The periphiral in use indicate that its power is on.

• sys_inspect.periph_power(<periph>, True|False) It tries to disabled the module compulsory, in this case, the system may perform in undesired behaviour

The following is a screen shot to the periph_module_list()