When facing this practical challeng, I looked over the options and found one that I thought would be interesting and hopefully I could learn something. With that in mind, I chose the Renode simulation of a HelloWorld project. I'd never used renode so my first step was to read the documentation it provided as well as search for any tutorial. Looking around I found an excellent article on memfault.com. This repo is a combination of the what I learned researching and the article.
I chose to run Renode using Docker. To install docker in an Ubuntu distro, run sudo apt install docker.io.
The code also needs to be cross-compied. To install the cross compiler, run sudo apt install gcc-arm-none-eabi.
I copied thee example code provided by the memfault article to this repository. Clone this repository using git clone https://github.com/pksublime/RenodeSTM32.git.
Simply run make to produce the renode-example.elf file.
As I'm using docker, I needed to ensure my local directory is available, so I mounted the PWD at a known location inside the container.
To run the Renode environment, run sudo docker run -ti -e DISPLAY -v $XAUTHORITY:/home/developer/.Xauthority -v $PWD:/tmp/elf --net=host antmicro/renode.
Run the following commands to create the machine, load the binary, and observe the output.
mach create
machine LoadPlatformDescription @platforms/boards/stm32f4_discovery-kit.repl
sysbus LoadELF @/tmp/elf/renode-example.elf
machine LoadPlatformDescription @/tmp/elf/add-ccm.repl
showAnalyzer sysbus.uart2
start
