embedded-firmware-demo

This is intended as a demonstration for the Renode simulation framework.

Description

Renode is a hardware simulation framework from AntMicro, designed to completely virtualize boards or MCUs. This allows developers to start the development of a product without having the real hardware at hand.

This project uses a Zephyr firmware as a base demonstration and simulates it in a Renode environment.

Installation

Everything is handled in a container so, apart from a container software (docker, podman, etc), nothing should be needed.

The base container image is pullable from the SMILE registry.

Usage

First things first, start the container! A helper script is provided with start_container. This script uses docker to run the latest tag hosted on Harbor.

Note:

A few error messages are displayed when the container is started but nothing is critical.

Once in the container, the root directory of this repo is mapped to a /zephyrws/smile-ws directory. From there you can use the scripts in the scripts folder:

• init: to do the initial setup of the workspace
• build: start a build of the demo firmware
• simulate: to start a Renode instance running the demo
• test: run the Robot framework tests using Renode