[sdiy] Renode - ARM Cortex M - debugging & testing via Emulation

[Martin Klang]

Nice. I've attempted QEMU in the past but always ended up putting much 
more time into emulation than what I saved on development.

Emulating the core is really the easy bit, it gets tricky when you start 
adding in peripherals. If your MCU is communicating with sophisticated 
parts like a codec, OLED screen, QSPI flash memory then creating all 
that scaffolding becomes a development project in itself.

Great to see that there are CPU and board definitions that cover quite a 
few peripherals: UART, SPI, CAN, DMA, EXTI, even ethernet... Don't see 
any timers there though.

And they have some sort of USB support, though I don't quite understand 
how it links up with the MCU implementation, since afaiu that is 
manufacturer-specific.

Now if only there was a tried-and-tested library of emulations for lots 
of commonly used parts! Time to make one?


Martin


On 25/03/2020 20:27, sleepy_dog at gmx.de wrote:
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> That sounds useful. Especially for automatted test suites, not having to
> write them into a flash program memory on real hardware.
>
> Example with an STM32.
>
> https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/intro-to-renode
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