Ghost Technology

What is Ghost Technology

Ghost is a new technology which, when combined with Flowcode, provides a revolutionary way of debugging electronic systems.

Ghost technology provides a real time log of the status of all the pins on the microcontroller whilst a Flowcode program is running on the device. Ghost data can be viewed on the Flowcode Softscope at the same time as the flow chart simulation. You can run, pause, and step through, your program and view Ghost data at the same time and view variables, registers and other memory locations. We call this ‘In-Circuit-Test’.

When this data is combined with the PC-side processing capabilities of Flowcode it provides a very powerful debugging and learning tool. As an example of this the 5 steps on the right show how a stream of GPS digital data is gathered from the E-blocks system and processed into layers of meaningful information to help the design process.

This saves huge amounts of development time - whether you are working at a pin level and getting your first program to work, or whether you are an advanced user wanting to perform a sanity check to make sure communications baud rates are set at the correct speed.

Both analogue and digital data is gathered through Ghost and displayed on the Flowcode Softscope. For communications busses decoding overlays for SPI, I2C, and other comms standards are available. Ghost data can also be passed to simulation/SCADA components in Flowcode to provide Human Machine Interface style debug features.

Ghost is watching you!

Ghost Settings