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<title>Renode: Easy CI for your Weird Hardware</title>
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<!--
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* Emulators are useful tools
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- PC emulator (e.g. Docker on Mac, WSL on Linux)
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- NES emulator -- fun and games, realtime output
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- Also have debugging emulators
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- Renode
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* Renode Stack
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- CPU cores written in C
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- arm, i386, ppc, riscv, sparc, xtensa
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- Windows, Mac, Linux
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- Peripherals and UI written in C#
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- Extensible via Python and C#
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- Write once. Run anywhere. Using C# to define new peripherals
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* Three major users
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- Designers of new boards
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- Reverse engineering exsisting hardware
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- Silicon designers
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* Designers of new boards
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- One or more chips
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- How are they connected?
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- What weird hardware exists?
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* Concurrent emulation of multiple devices
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- Can connect multiple devices, e.g. via UART, GPIO, SPI, Ethernet, CAN...
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- All devices are emulated using the same time source
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- Helps to debug timing differences with different processors on a board
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* Board definition format
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- Easily define memory layout
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- Easily move blocks around
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- Only define what's necessary
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- You don't need to be perfect, just good enough!
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* Can read SVD files
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* Hardware has Similarities
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- Picture of existing register sets
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- There are only so many combinations
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- Rip. Mix. Burn. Many chips are just copies of one another.
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* Tests in CI
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* Reverse engineering existing hardware
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* If it's a supported architecture, it's easy to run code
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* LoadBinary and set PC
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* Can skip much of the boot ROM
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* Attach GDB
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* Reproducible makes it easy to test theories
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* Developing new Silicon blocks
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* Betrusted hardware
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- Create a new design in LiteX / Verilog
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- Document the design
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- Create a model
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- Timing isn't as critical
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<section>
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<section>
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<h2>What is an Emulator?</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>Console</li>
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<li>Desktop</li>
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<li>CPU</li>
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</ul>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>Whole-System Emulator</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>Wii Virtual Console</li>
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<li>VirtualBox</li>
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<li>Parallels</li>
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</ul>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>Transparent Emulator</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>HyperV</li>
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<li>WSL2/Docker</li>
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<li>qemu on Linux</li>
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<li>Rosetta on Mac</li>
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</ul>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>Debugger/Emulator</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>FCEUX (Nintendo Entertainment System)</li>
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<li>Dolphin (Wii / Gamecube)</li>
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</ul>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>Renode Is All of These</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>Console: Able to present an interactive environment</li>
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<li>Transparent: Can run in CI via Robot commands</li>
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<li>Debugger: Has a GDB server built in</li>
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</ul>
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</section>
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</section>
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<section>
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<section>
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<h2>Example of Weird Hardware</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>NRF52840</li>
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<li>LM74 Temperature Sensor</li>
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</ul>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>Example of Weird Hardware</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>NRF52833</li>
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<li>LM74 Temperature Sensor</li>
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</ul>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>Example of Weird Hardware</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>BlueNRG1</li>
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<li>LM74 Temperature Sensor</li>
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</ul>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>Example of Weird Hardware</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>RISC-V</li>
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<li>FPGA-based framebuffer</li>
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<li>Initial graphical demo in 1 hour</li>
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</ul>
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</section>
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</section>
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<section>
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<section>
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<h2>What makes hardware "Weird"?</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>Unusual CPU architecture</li>
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<li>Different model of chip than commonly found</li>
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<li>Additional hardware</li>
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<li>More CPUs per board</li>
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</ul>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>Unusual CPU architecture</h2>
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Sorry, can't help
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</section>
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<h2>Different model CPU</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>Maybe it's just a variant</li>
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<li>Perhaps memory regions were shuffled</li>
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<li>Does it use the same hardware block as someone else?</li>
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</ul>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>New hardware version</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>Do you use the new, specialized features?</li>
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<li>Lots of UARTs support Infrared. Do you need that?</li>
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</ul>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>Completely new hardware</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>Time to break out C#</li>
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</ul>
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</section>
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</section>
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<section>
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<section>
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<h2>What is "Firmware"?</h2>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>How does this interact with $VENDOR_TOOL?</h2>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>What about boot ROMs?</h2>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>What about missing registers?</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>Very few projects use built-in blocks</li>
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</ul>
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</section>
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</section>
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<section>
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<section>
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<h2>SVD Files</h2>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>Logging Memory Accesses</h2>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>Debugging with GDB</h2>
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</section>
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