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<h2>Renode: Easy CI for your Weird Hardware</h2>
<h3>Sean Cross</h3>
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<h2>Renode</h2>
<p>I find it a useful tool. Maybe you will, too!
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<h2>What is "Weird Hardware"?</h2>
<ul>
<li>Hardware that there is only one of (because you just made it)</li>
<li>Hardware that you're trying to understand</li>
<li>Hardware that uses ARM, i386, PowerPC, Risc-V, Sparc, or Xtensa</li>
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<h2>About Me: I Do Weird Hardware</h2>
<ul>
<li>Simmel: Contact Tracing with Audio</li>
<li>Chibitronics: Programming Stickers with Audio</li>
<li>Betrusted/Precursor: FPGA Secure Communications</li>
<li>Fomu: World's Smallest FPGA Dev Board</li>
<li>Novena: Open Source Laptop</li>
<li>Senoko: Open Source Power Board for Novena</li>
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<li>MIT Licensed</li>
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<h2>About This Talk</h2>
<ul>
<li>Overview of Emulators</li>
<li>Oevrview of Weird Hardware</li>
<li>Cool things you can do</li>
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<h2>Who will find this interesting?</h2>
<h2>Who Might Find This Talk Interesting?</h2>
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<li>Creators: Those making new boards or hardware</li>
<li>Integrators: Running CI on firmware files</li>
<li>Reverse Engineers: Understanding new hardware and firmware</li>
<li>Creators</li>
<li>Integrators</li>
<li>Reverse Engineers</li>
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<ul>
<li>Reusing an existing platform</li>
<li>Reusing an existing microcontroller</li>
<li>New microcontroller fron existing family</li>
<li>New microcontroller from existing family</li>
<li>New microcontroller with a common CPU</li>
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</ul>
<li>Hardware crunch makes it difficult to get hardware</li>
<li>Downloading software is much cheaper than shipping</li>
<li>Can run tests on every code push</li>
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<ul>
<li>Staring at code flow is enlightening, but time-consuming</li>
<li>What is it doing and how does it get there?</li>
<li>How can we make it do $x?</li>
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<img src="media/bluenrg-ghidra-trace.png" class="fragment">
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<h2>What is an Emulator?</h2>
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<h2>What is an Emulator?</h2>
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<h2>What is an Emulator?</h2>
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<h2>What Is an Emulator?</h2>
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<h2>Whole-System Emulator</h2>
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<li>Rosetta on Mac</li>
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<h2>What is an Emulator?</h2>
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<h2>What is an Emulator?</h2>
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<h2>What is an Emulator?</h2>
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<h2>Emulation Depends on your Goals!</h2>
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<h2>Renode Is Many of These</h2>
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<li>Console: Able to present an interactive environment</li>
<li>Transparent: Can run in CI via Robot commands</li>
<li>Debugger: Has a GDB server built in</li>
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<h2>What is a Computer?</h2>
<img src="media/bluenrg-block-diagram-peripherals.png">
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<h2>What is a Computer?</h2>
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<h2>Defining a Computer in Renode</h2>
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flash: Memory.MappedMemory @ sysbus 0x00000000
size: 0x00008000
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sysbus LoadBinary @rom.bin 0x20000000
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<h2>How does Renode Interact With $VENDOR_TOOL?</h2>
<ul>
<li>Hopefully your vendor tool produces ELF files</li>
<li class="fragment">At the end of the day, it's all bytes. Just use <code>LoadBinary</code>!
<li class="fragment">HEX? BIN? Just use <code>LoadBinary</code>!
<li class="fragment">Custom firmware format? Need to unpack first.</li>
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<li>Jump to loaded program</li>
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sysbus LoadBinary @rom.bin 0x20000000
sysbus.cpu VectorTableOffset 0x20000000
sysbus.cpu PC 0x20000c00
sysbus.cpu SP `sysbus ReadDoubleWord 0x20000000`
sysbus.cpu PC `sysbus ReadDoubleWord 0x20000004`
start
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<li>They are easy to script</li>
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<h2>What is a Computer?</h2>
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<h2>What is a Register?</h2>
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<h2>What is a Register?</h2>
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<h2>What is a Register?</h2>
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PerformanceInMips: 24
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<h2>Setting up Renode</h2>
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machine LoadPlatformDescription @bluenrg-1.repl
sysbus LoadBinary @BLE_Chat_Server.bin 0x10040000
cpu VectorTableOffset 0x10040000
cpu SP `sysbus ReadDoubleWord 0x10040000`
cpu PC `sysbus ReadDoubleWord 0x10040004`
start
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<h2>Output Success!</h2>
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<h2>Example Serial Port</h2>
<h2>Modify an Existing Block</h2>
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<h2>Example Serial Port: LiteX UART</h2>
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//
// Copyright (c) 2010-2018 Antmicro
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<li class="fragment">Most writes can be ignored</li>
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<h2>Peripheral Rapid Development</h2>
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<h2>Peripheral Rapid Development</h2>
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<h2>Advantages of Emulation</h2>
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<h2>Advantages of Emulation</h2>
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<h2>Getting Hardware to Users</h2>
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<h2>Getting Hardware to Users</h2>
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<h2>SVD: Using with Renode</h2>
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<h2>Multi-System Emulation</h2>
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<h2>Multi-System Emulation</h2>
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<h2>Multi-System Emulation</h2>
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<h2>Multi-System Emulation</h2>
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<h2>Renode is Free Software</h2>
Give it a try!
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<h2>Thank you for your time</h2>
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