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For installation instructions, see the README.

Added architecture support:

• initial support for ARMv7-R and Cortex-R8, verified with ThreadX and Zephyr
• initial support for Cortex-A55
• initial support for Cortex-M23 and Cortex-M85
• support for RISC-V Bit Manipulation extensions - Zba, Zbb, Zbc and Zbs
• support for RISC-V Half-precision Floating Point (Zfh) extension, including vector operations
• support for RISC-V Andes AndeStar V5 ISA extension

Added and improved platform descriptions:

• generic Cortex-R8 platform
• Renesas EK-RA2E1 board with R7FA2E1A9 SoC
• Arduino Uno R4 Minima platform with Renesas F7FA4M1A SoC
• Renesas CK-RA6M5 board with R7FA6M5B SoC, with initial radio support
• Renesas EK-RA8M1 board with R7FA8M1A SoC
• Renesas R7FA2L1A SoC
• Renesas DA14592 SoC
• Renesas RZ/T2M-RSK board with RZ/T2M SoC
• Gaisler GR712RC SoC with UART, timer, GPIO, FTMC and Ethernet
• Gaisler GR716 SoC with UART, timer and GPIO
• Gaisler UT32M0R500 SoC with UART, timer and GPIO
• NXP S32K388 with UART, timers, watchdog, SIUL2, SPI, Mode entry module and others
• NXP LPC2294 SoC with UART, CAN, timer and interrupts support
• Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC platform support with single core Cortex-A53, UART, GPIO and I2C
• singlecore Cortex-R5 part of Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC platform with UART, TTC, Ethernet and GPIO
• Nuvoton NPCX9 platform support with UART, various timers, SPI, flash and other peripherals
• ST Nucleo H753ZI with STM32H753 SoC with a range of ST peripherals
• updates to Armv8-A platforms
• updates to Ambiq Apollo4
• updates to Xilinx Zynq 7000
• various updates in STM32 platform files

Added peripheral models:

• ABRTCMC, I2C-based RTC
• Altera JTAG UART
• Ambiq Apollo4 Watchdog
• Arm Global Timer
• Arm Private Timer
• Arm SP804 Timer
• ArmSnoopControlUnit
• BCM2711 AUX UART
• BME280 sensor
• Betrusted EC I2C
• Betrusted SoC I2C
• Bosch M_CAN
• CAN to UART converter
• Cadence Watchdog Timer
• Gaisler APBUART
• Gaisler GPIO
• GigaDevice GD32 UART
• HS3001 sensor
• ICM20948 sensor
• ICP10101 sensor
• Infineon SCB UART
• LINFlexD UART
• MB85RC1MT Ferroelectric Random Access Memory
• MXIC MX66UM1G45G flash
• NPCX FIU
• NPCX Flash
• NPCX HFCG
• NPCX ITIM32
• NPCX LFCG
• NPCX MDMA
• NPCX Monotonic Counter
• NPCX SPIP
• NPCX Timer and Watchdog
• NPCX UART
• NXP LPC CAN
• NXP LPC CTimer
• NXP LPC USART
• OB1203A sensor
• PL190 vectored interrupt controller
• PL330_DMA (CoreLink DMA-330) Controller
• Renesas DA14 DMA peripheral
• Renesas DA14 GPIO
• Renesas DA14 General Purpose Timer
• Renesas DA14 UART
• Renesas DA14 I2C
• Renesas DA16200 Wi-Fi module
• Renesas RA series AGT
• Renesas RA series GPIO
• Renesas RA series GPT
• Renesas RA series ICU
• Renesas RA series SCI
• Renesas RZ/T2M GPIO
• Renesas RZ/T2M SCI
• S32K3XX Miscellaneous System Control Module
• S32K3XX Periodic Interrupt Timer
• S32K3XX Real Time Clock
• S32K3XX Software Watchdog Timer
• S32K3XX System Integration Unit Lite 2
• S32K3XX System Timer Module
• S32K3XX FlexIO stub
• S32K3XX Mode Entry Module
• SHT45 temperature/humidity sensor
• SPI NAND flash
• STM32WBA PWR
• Samsung K9 NAND Flash
• Smartbond UART
• Universal Flash Storage (JESD220F)
• Universal Flash Storage Host Controller (JESD223E)
• XMC4XXX UART
• ZMOD4xxx sensor
• Zynq 7000 System Level Control Registers

For installation instructions, see the README.

Added architecture support:

• initial support for ARMv8-A, verified with a range of software, from Coreboot and U-Boot to Linux
• initial support for ARMv8-R, verified with U-Boot and Zephyr

Added and improved platform descriptions:

• generic Cortex-A53 platform, in flavors with GICv3 and GICv2
• generic Cortex-A78 platform
• generic Cortex-R52 platform
• HiFive Unmatched platform support, with UART, PWM, I2C, GPIO, Ethernet, QSPI and other peripherals
• Nucleo WBA52CG with STM32WBA52
• updated OpenTitan and EarlGrey platform to a newer version
• various updates in STM32 platform files
• translation support for Espressif ESP32 chips

Added peripheral models:

• ARM GIC, compatible with various specification versions
• ARM generic timer
• CMSDK APB UART
• Cypress S25H Flash
• EFR32xG2 I2C
• EFR32xG2 RTCC
• EFR32xG2 UART
• Marvell Armada Timer
• MXC UART
• OMAP Timer
• OpenTitan Entropy Distribution Network
• Quectel BC66
• Quectel BG96
• SI7210 Temperature
• SPI multiplexer
• STM32F4 CRC
• STM32F4 Flash
• STM32H7 Flash
• STM32WBA Flash
• STM32H7 Hardware Semaphore
• STM32H7 SPI
• STM32WBA SPI
• STM32WBA ADC
• Synopsys DWC Ethernet QoS model, along with Linux-based tests
• TMP108 Temperature sensor

Added demos and tests:

• Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A78 running Coreboot, ATF and Linux
• Zephyr running echo_client demo on STM32F7-disco with Quectel BG96
• basic Cortex-A53 Zephyr hello-world test and sample
• additional Zephyr tests for Cortex-A53: synchronization, philosophers, kernel FPU sharing
• seL4 Adder Sample test for Cortex-A53
• range of Zephyr tests for Cortex-R52, along with custom-made, synthetic tests
• precise pausing tests for LED and terminal tester

Added features:

• renode-test allows to run tests with a specified tag via the --include switch
• DPI interface for external HDL simulators, supporting AXI4 interface
• portable package creation on dotnet
• option to have Robot test pause execution deterministically after a match in various testers: UART, LED, log
• duty cycle detection in LED tester
• option to load files (e.g. raw binaries, hex files) to different localizations, like memories
• support for relative paths in REPL file using directive
• MPU support for Cortex-M
• FAULTMASK register in Cortex-M
• support for Trace Based Model performance simulator by Google
• read and write hooks for peripherals
• DPI interface support for co-simulating with RTL, with initial support for AXI4 bus
• build.sh --profile-build switch to enable easier profiling of translation libraries
• mechanism for progressing virtual time without executing instructions
• support for subregions in Cortex-M MPU
• support for FPU exceptions for Cortex-M
• quad word (64-bit) peripherals API
• CSV2RESD tool, for easy generation of RESD files
• automatic selection of port used to communicate between Renode and Robot
• option to pause emulation of Robot keywords
• support for NMI interrupts in RISC-V
• option to save Renode logs for all tests
• Execute Python keyword in Robot tests

Changed:

• GDB interacts with Renode much faster
• Renode now uses Robot Framework 6.0.2 for testing (with an option to use other versions at your own risk)
• RESD format now accepts negative sampleOffsetTime
• HEX files loader now supports extended segment address and start segment address sections
• GDB autostart parameter now starts the simulation as soon as the debugger is connected
• VerilatorIntegrationLibrary is now part of Renode packages
• improved performance of the virtual time handling loop
• improved parsing of RESD files
• improved memory allocation mechanism to allocate memory regions larger than 2GiB
• support for mapping memories on very high offsets
• improved GDB connection robustness
• exposed Monitor as a variable in Python hooks
• improved the GDB compare helper script
• improved handling of input files in TFTP server module

Fixed:

• cursor blinking in terminal on Windows
• crash when NetworkServer tried to log an invalid packet
• race condition when trying to pause during the machine startup
• platform serialization when CPU profiler is enabled
• limit buffer behavior in verilated peripherals when they are reset
• registration is no longer taken into account when looking for dependency cycles in REPL files
• exception when issuing a DMA transaction during register access
• reported PC on exception when executing vector instructions in RISC-V
• several RISC-V vector instructions handling, e.g. vfredosum, vsetivli and vector_fpu
• invalid instruction block exiting on RISC-V
• handling of c.ebreak instruction in RISC-V, allowing for software breakpoints
• building fixes on dotnet
• removing of IO access flag from memory pages
• invalidation of dirty translation blocks
• handling of MMU faults on address translations
• serialization of RESD files
• automatic creation of TAP interface on Linux
• ARM LDA/STL instructions decoding
• handling of platforms containing both 32- and 64-bit CPUs
• file permissions in .NET portable packages
• handling of non-resettable register fields
• several RISC-V vector instructions
• handling of the context menu in the Monitor window
• support for Cortex-M4F in LLVMDisassembler
• packets matching method in NetworkInterfaceTester
• address calculations in DMA engine
• custom build properties handling in Renode build script
• handling of time reporting and empty test cases in renode-test

Improvements in peripherals:

• AmbiqApollo4 Timer
• ArrayMemory
• AS6221 Temperature sensor
• AT Command Modem
• AT91 Timer
• Cadence UART
• Cortex-M Systick
• EF32MG12 LDMA
• Ibex
• LIS2DW12 Accelerometer
• LiteX I2C
• LSM6DSO
• MAX30208 Temperature sensor
• MAX32650 GPIO
• MAX32650 I2C
• MAX32650 RTC
• MAX32650 SPI
• MAX32650 Timer
• MAX32650 TPU
• MAX32650 WDT
• MAX86171 AFE
• nRF52840 SPI
• nRF52840 I2C
• nRF52840 GPIO
• OpenTitan HMAC
• OpenTitan PLIC
• OpenTitan ROM
• OpenTitan OTP
• OpenTitan Key Manager
• OpenTitan Flash
• OpenTitan Reset Manager
• OpenTitan KMAC
• OpenTitan CSRNG
• OpenTitan Alert Handler
• OpenTitan Timer
• OpenTitan OTBN
• PL011 UART
• Quectel BC660K
• SAMD5 UART
• SiFive GPIO
• Silencer
• STM32 DMA
• STM32G0 DMA
• STM32 EXTI, with specific implementations for STM32F4, STM32H7 and STM32WBA
• STM32 GPIO
• STM32F7 I2C
• STM32L0 LPTimer
• STM32L0 RCC
• STM32H7 RCC
• STM32F4 RTC
• STM32 SPI
• STM32 Timer
• STM32F7 USART

For installation instructions, see the README.

Added and improved platform descriptions:

• basic Adafruit ItsyBitsy M4 Express platform with UART and memories
• various STM32 platforms with improved EXTI connections, IWDG configuration, and new CRC, Flash, PWR, RCC, and LPTimer models added to selected platforms
• MAX32650 with a new I2C model
• Zynq 7000 with new I2C, SPI, UART and TTC models
• Apollo 4 with a new Timer model and a program_main2 bootrom function mock
• OpenTitan Earlgrey with new OTBN accelerator, AON Timer, System Reset controller, Entropy source, and SRAM controller models
• nRF52840 with a new EGU model
• EFR32MG1x with a new LDMA model and improved USART interrupt connections

Added peripheral models:

• Apollo4 IOMaster I2C mode
• Apollo4 Timer
• AS6221 skin temperature sensor
• Cadence I2C controller
• Cadence SPI controller
• Cadence TTC
• Cadence UART
• Cadence xSPI controller
• EFR32MG12 LDMA controller
• LIS2DW12 accelerometer sensor
• LC709205F Fuel Gauge
• Macronix MX25R flash
• MAX30208 temperature sensor
• MAX32650 I2C controller
• MAX77818 Fuel Gauge
• MAX86171 Optical AFE
• NRF52840 EGU
• OpenTitan AON Timer
• OpenTitan Big Number Accelerator (OTBN) full model
• OpenTitan ClockManager stub
• OpenTitan Entropy Source controller
• OpenTitan SRAM controller
• OpenTitan SystemReset controller
• Quectel BC660K radio
• RV8803 RTC
• STM32F0 CRC
• STM32H7 RCC
• STM32L0 Flash controller
• STM32L0 Low Power Timer
• STM32L0 PWR
• TMP103 temperature sensor

Added demos and tests:

• RTC mode unit test
• Adafruit ItsyBitsy M4 Express Zephyr shell_module test
• STM32L072 tests for: DMA, PVD interrupt, SPI flash, IWDG, LPUART, EEPROM, and CRC
• STM32F4 tests for RTC and running an STM32CubeMX app
• Zynq tests for I2C, TTC, SPI flash, xSPI, and UART based on Linux

Added features:

• support for RESD - Renode Sensor Data format, allowing users to provide multiple sensors with time-coordinated data specific for a given sensor; currently supported in MAX86171, MAX30208, AS6221, and LSM6DSO
• reorganized CPU classes and interfaces, allowing for easier integration of external CPU simulators
• IOMMU, with example usage in WindowIOMMU, WindowMMUBusController, and SimpleDMA
• new key bindings in the Monitor: Ctrl+D for closing the window and Ctrl+U for clearing the current input
• new key bindings in all terminal windows: Shift+Up/Down arrow for line scrolling and Shift+Home/End for jumping to the beginning and the end of the buffer
• option to configure UART window location offsets via the config file
• support for 64-bit bus accesses and 64-bit peripherals
• support non-resettable peripheral registers and register fields
• option to register hooks to be called whenever a RISC-V register is accessed - this can be used to emulate non-standard implementation of these registers
• option to set CPU exceptions from the outside of the CPU
• Robot keyword to verify that GPIO has a specified state for a given period of time
• verbose mode in Robot tests

Changed:

• Robot tests do not need a header with settings and keywords anymore
• changed the conditional syntax in Robot tests to use IF/ELSE for compatibility with newer Robot Framework versions
• cleaned up tests-related file organization in the repository
• simplified flags for renode-test under dotnet
• added skip_mono and skip_dotnet tags to Robot tests
• removed internal signal mappings from STM32 EXTI, making the interrupt routing more explicit in REPL files
• console mode will be started instead of telnet when the UI fails to start
• reset can now be executed on a not started machine
• expanded the Execution Tracer with TrackMemoryAccesses and TrackVectorConfiguration options, along with disassembler-generated info
• OnMemoryAccess hooks now receive the current PC as a parameter
• changed the CRCEngine API and improved implementation
• ELF symbol lookup will now skip several types of unimportant symbols
• tags can now have zero width to ease the creation of variable width registers
• added option to invert reset logic in AXI4Lite
• added handling of the WSTRB signal in AXI4Lite
• added support for various address lines connections in Wishbone
• added various access lengths support for verilated peripherals
• timeout value for Verilator connections can now be defined in compile time
• all architectures now sync their PC on memory accesses
• UARTBase is now a container for IUART devices
• added option to clear all event subscribers in LimitTimer
• added ITimer interface for handling basic timer properties
• extended the excluded assembly list in TypeManager to speed up startup on dotnet

Fixed:

• flushing of the log when using the lastLog command
• deadlock when using the --console mode on dotnet with collapsed log entries enabled
• Wireshark handling on macOS
• TAP support on macOS
• Asciinema usage in multi-machine setups
• closing of Renode in several problematic scenarios
• handling of end of file detection in HEX parsing
• robustness of BLESniffer
• timestamps discrepancies in file logs and console logs
• compilation under Visual Studio on Windows
• compilation on Windows when the PLATFORM environment variable is set
• graph titles for metrics visualizer
• handling of peripheral regions in Profiles
• file sharing and access type settings for open files
• floating point registers access on RV32
• several RISC-V Vector instructions
• crash when the CPU is created with an invalid type
• RISC-V PMP config reading and writing and NAPOT decoding
• translation cache invalidation in multicore RISC-V scenarios
• SEV generation on Cortex-M
• handling of multi-instructions blocks in Xtensa
• execution of too many instructions in a single block
• button sample tests for STM32F072q
• fastvdma co-simulation test
• qCRC packet handling in GDB
• decoding of GDB packets, selecting the command handler based on the longest match for a packet
• address translation in GDB
• UARTToSpiConverter logic and user experience
• handling of Step parameter in ClockEntry
• changing of frequency for divider calculation in ComparingTimer
• cleanup of old clock entries

Improvements in peripherals:

• AmbiqApollo4 IOMaster
• AmbiqApollo4 RTC
• AthenaX5200
• Cadence TTC
• Dummy I2C Slave
• EFR32 CMU
• EFR32 USART
• EFR32 RTCC
• Generic SPI Flash
• HiMax HM01B0
• I2C dummy device
• LSM6DSO IMU
• Mapped Memory
• Micron MT25Q
• MPFS PDMA
• NRF52840 SPI
• NRF52840 I2C
• NRF52840 RTC
• NVIC interrupt controller
• OpenCores I2C
• OpenTitan I2C
• OpenTitan Flash controller
• OpenTitan LifeCycle controller
• OpenTitan ROM controller
• SAMD5 UART
• SI70xx temperature sensor
• SiFive GPIO
• STM32 GPIO
• STM32 SPI
• STM32 Timer
• STM32F4 IndependentWatchdog
• STM32F4 RTC
• STM32F7 I2C
• STM32F7 USART
• STM32L0 RCC
• STM32G0 DMA

For installation instructions, see the README.

Added platforms:

• Ambiq Apollo4 with ADC, GPIO, IO Master, System Timer, RTC, UART and other peripherals
• STM32L07x with ADC, GPIO, I2C ,RTC, SPI, Timer, USART, IWDG, DMA and other peripherals (RCC)
• verilated Ibex core with the rest of the platform natively in Renode

Added models:

• MAX32650 TPU with CRC32 support
• basic support for MAX32650 ADC
• MAX32650 SPI
• MAX32650 Watchdog
• LSM6DSO IMU
• EFR32xG12DeviceInformation
• External CPU stub as a base for integration of other CPU simulators
• OpenTitan SPI host
• OpenTitan I2C host
• OpenTitan Alert Handler, along with updates to other OpenTitan peripherals with alert functionality
• new algorithms and cores in AthenaX5200
• EFR32MG1 BitAccess
• i.MX RT GPTimer

Added demos and tests:

• STM32L072 Zephyr shell_module demo and test
• Ambiq Apollo4 Hello World example from Ambiq Suite and various peripheral tests
• MAX32652 EVKIT Hello World example from MAX32652 SDK
• FPGA ISP co-simulation demo and test

Added features:

• experimental support for .NET 6 framework
• guest-application profiling for ARM
• Interrupt hooks for ARM
• BLE sniffer support for Wireshark
• Perfetto profiler format support in guest-application profiling, along with process detection on RISC-V
• binary output format of execution tracer, along with a Python helper script to decode data
• new Run Until Breakpoint keyword for Robot tests
• verbose mode in Robot tester
• region of interest support in FrameBufferTester
• framework for providing timestamped sensor data
• WishboneInitiator bus in Verilator support
• nightly “sources” package with the whole content required for building Renode offline

Organizational improvements:

• added GitHub issue and PR templates, along with an issue reproduction repository updated contributing instructions

Changed:

• added mapping for l2ZeroDevice in PolarFire SoC
• added caching of canvas bounds in TermSharp for improved performance
• restructured height map storage in TermSharp
• updated descriptions of SLTB004A and EFR32MG12 targets
• restructured CPU-related class hierarchy
• disabled TCG optimizations and liveness analysis for improved performance
• updated OpenTitan supported version, changing a range of OpenTitan peripherals
• major refactor of VerilatorIntegrationLibrary, with new interfaces and code restructuration
• updated symbol exclusion rules not to include $x symbol names in SymbolLookup
• disabled TLB flushing in RISC-V on mode change for improved performance
• allowed more than one page permission at a time in RISC-V, reducing the number of address translations
• improved output of Robot tests with timestamps and explicit test results after each suite
• SD card controller now supports more card types

Fixed:

• PMP implementation for RISC-V
• several RISC-V vector instructions including floating-point vector instructions
• 'Take Screenshot' button in VideoAnalyzer
• non-blocking CPU stepping
• crash when loading file without sufficient permissions
• external MMU not respecting the no_page_fault flag
• issues with concurrent creation of config file
• indeterminism of sel4_extensions test
• GDB Stub not issuing an error when trying to add zero-sized watchpoint
• handling of watchpoints on big-endian platforms
• portability of MSBuild calls across different host systems
• PolarFire SoC Watchdog test
• serialization of FrameBufferTester
• translation cache flushing after reset

Improvements in peripherals:

• Cortex-M NVIC
• HPSHostController
• NRF52840 Watchdog
• BMC050 accelerometer
• MAX32650 RTC
• MAX32650 GCR
• STM32F7 I2C
• STM32G0 DMA
• Micron MT25Q
• i.MX RT GPIO

For installation instructions, see the README.

Added platforms:

• MAX32652 with UART, GPIO, Timer, PWRSEQ, GCR and RTC
• Thunderboard Sense 2 (SLTB004A) based on EFR32MG12

Added models:

• STM32G0 DMA controller
• OpenTitan CSRNG
• OpenTitan OTP controller
• OpenTitan Life Cycle controller
• USBserialport_S3B model for Qomu
• SAMD5 UART
• SAMD20 UART
• AES and Message Authentication cores for AthenaX5200
• LiteX MMCM controller in the 32-bit CSR width configuration
• LiteX Framebuffer in the 32-bit CSR width configuration

Added demos:

• Qomu running Zephyr shell
• SLTB004A running Gecko SDK baremetal CLI sample

Added features:

• guest-application profiling support
• TAP integration on Windows
• interrupt end hooks for RV64
• option for gathering execution metrics when running tests
• tests for logging from a sub-object
• PolarFireSoC Watchdog tests
• the disassembly output format to the Execution Tracer module
• option for filtering messages by log level in the log tester

Changed:

• improved support for ARMv8-M registers
• added option to compare raw values of selected registers in the gdb_compare script
• implemented generation of guest-host PC mappings info on block translation
• added Frequency property to ComparingTimer
• monitor-tests: Use virtual time in the pause test
• added static flushing to the logger
• included missing tools (like gdb_compare, sel4_extensions) in all packages
• added precompilation of Python scripts before running (to detect errors early)
• added user-specified file paths handling
• added filtering of ANSI escape codes from Robot tests keyword results
• added option to enable profiler globally in EmulationManager
• added command to disable automatic symbol switching in seL4 GDB extensions
• improved RISC-V kernel breakpoints support in seL4 GDB extensions
• code generator is now compiled with more aggressive optimizations
• changed the CPU class structure, allowing for core implementations not based on translation libraries
• updated the Nexys Video platform description and demo binaries

Fixed:

• 'Should Output Voice Data' test for QuickFeather
• various RISC-V vector instructions
• register values accessing in RISC-V
• help button behavior in AdvancedLoggerViewer
• concurrent access to Pixel Manipulation Tools
• clock residuum handling, e.g. improving the behavior of the BLE demo
• serialization of externals and GDB stub
• stacktrace reporting when exception is rethrown on the native-managed boundary
• packaging of license files from dependency projects
• exception handling on EnsureTypeIsLoaded
• various fixes in file handling layer
• improved handling of variables assigned to variables in the Monitor
• handling of multiple CPUs with different configurations in GDB
• STM32F413 RCC address
• DDR mapping in PolarFire SoC
• TCM memory size in miv_rv32

Improvements in peripherals:

• NVIC
• STM32F4_RCC
• STM32_ADC
• STM32_GPIOPort
• MiV_CoreGPIO
• GigaDevice_GD25LQ
• MC3635
• SynopsysEthernetMAC
• LiteSDCard_CSR32
• ResetPin
• HPSHostController

For installation instructions, see the README.

Added platforms:

• Xtensa sample controller stub
• MIMXRT1064-EVK
• STM32L552
• ARVSOM
• BeagleV StarLight
• Sparc GR716
• RISC-V virt
• S32K118 with LPIT, LPTMR, GPIO, Clock generator mock
• STM32G0
• STM32F412
• STM32H743
• MIV_RV32

Added models:

• new models for i.MX RT 1064: PWM, timer, ADC, LPSPI, Flex SPI, TRNG
• new models for nRF52840: RNG, Radio, Watchdog, ECB, PPI infrastructure
• new models for STM32: ADC, slave CAN, PWR, watchdog
• new models for OpenTitan: flash controller, timer, PLIC, HMAC, AES, KMAC, ROM controller, Key manager, Reset manager
• new models for Polarfire SoC: system services, user crypto features (RNG and RSA), Mustein GPU and various fixes to platform description
• new model for Zynq 7000: XADC
• new generic models:
  • generic SPISensor
  • HostCamera device
  • TrivialUart
  • HPSHostController - fake I2C host master device for communicating with simulated devices
  • GigaDevice_GD25LQ - initial model
  • VirtIO block device model

Added demos:

• Murax SoC with verilated UART with simple echo demo
• LiteX with verilated CFU running CFU Playground demo
• Zynq with verilated FastVDMA running Linux
• NRF52840 BLE demo running Zephyr central_hr and peripheral_hr samples
• Leon3 running Zephyr shell
• GR716 running Zephyr shell
• Xtensa sample controller running Zephyr “Hello World" sample

Added core features:

• RISC-V: vector extension 1.0 support
• Xtensa architecture support
• RISC-V: access to proper set of registers + custom registers from GDB
• RISC-V: support for Custom Function Unit extensions
• WFE support on ARM cores
• uninterruptible debugging option to all architectures
• floating point support to Cortex-M platforms
• basic support for ARM 64-bit registers
• Cortex-M33 stub
• Sparc: added CSR register and exposed FSR register

Added features:

• primary selection copy support in TermSharp
• support for asciinema UART dumps
• support for native library communication in verilated peripherals
• APB3 bus implementation for VerilatorIntegrationLibrary
• support for loading HEX files
• video capture mechanism with host camera integration
• startup parameter for specifying the config file
• register access keywords for Robot Framework integration
• support VideoAnalyzer on Windows
• option to stop on first error when running tests
• option to save failed test logs
• opcodes counting mechanism, along with RISC-V opcodes files parser
• execution tracing mechanism
• Wireshark support on Windows
• seL4-aware GDB debug support
• BLE wireless medium including Wireshark support
• gdb_compare script allowing to compare execution of two GDB instances, for example one connected to Renode and one to hardware
• support for vector registers in GDB
• CPU Id parameter in ARM cores
• option to control timestamp format and visibility in LoggingUartAnalyzer
• option to skip library fetch during build
• option to flush terminal history when connecting via socket
• support for external, bus-connected MMU

Changed:

• bumped Robot Framework version to 4.0.1
• RobotFramework: log entries keywords now accept regex patterns
• STM: renamed some UART ports to USART
• ZynqEthernet: removed and replaced with CadenceGEM
• Zedboard: updated demo to Linux 5.10
• reworked CPU halting
• added CRC to packets sent by NetworkServer
• RISC-V: added logs on unhandled CSR accesses
• improved build time by changes to TermSharp project organization
• various updates to STM32F746 CPU definition
• added limit to displayed command history in AntShell
• moved output of Robot tests to current directory when running on Windows
• XWT events are now queued in GTK engine
• added option to reconnect to SocketServerProvider
• explicitly used XZ compression with pacman
• added option to limit function names logging to unique entries, vastly improving performance
• removed dependency to realpath from build and run scripts
• removed dependency to ZeroMQ
• renamed EOSS3_SPIMaster to DesignWare_SPI
• dropped Fedora version indicator from packages
• optimized RISC-V PMP handling
• reworked PlatformLevelInterruptController to operate on contexts instead of targets
• added O/H/W write commands to ArduinoLoader
• enabled TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 in CachingFileFetcher
• improved multicore debugging support in GDB
• allowed to reuse testers in Robot tests
• added option to safely include the same C# file multiple times during one Renode run
• added tests.yaml, containing all Robot tests, to all packages
• add debug mode for all architectures disabling interrupts when stepping over guest code
• simplified fixture selection when running tests
• allowed unaligned memory access by default in IbexRiscV32
• added GBD support for VS bits in MSTATUS register
• added interrupts support in verilated peripherals
• added support for CPU registers wider than 64-bits in Renode (C# part, not tlibs)
• improved and unified the --plain mode handling
• refactored the disassembly handling subsystem
• improved GDB packets handling performance
• added option to control serialization mode in the configuration file
• added optional compiled files cache
• improved handling of exceptions at the C/C# boundary
• flattened the TimeFramework structure to increase performance
• improved performance of handling of truncated translation blocks
• improved performance of TermSharp height map calculations and row handling
• added several tlib performance optimizations
• added the synchronized timers emulation mode
• added support for the flow control in UART
• added support for bright colors to TermSharp
• added basic VSCode launch configurations for Renode on Mono
• unified renode and renode-test scripts names across all packages
• added support for per-core peripheral registration
• added option to the build script to export the build directory
• improved performance of ELF reloading
• updated Conda build scripts to better work with the latest Renode, improved Windows support
• added option to configure step for clock entries
• improved startup performance by skipping analysis of uninteresting assemblies in TypeManager
• tied the AutoRepaintingVideo refresh frequency to the virtual time flow
• enabled passing the -e parameter to Renode even when providing a script file parameter
• added option to preserve temporary files from Robot tests
• added a source of a log message to the log tester
• Provides and Requires keywords now use state snapshots

Fixed:

• CPU endianness handling in GDB register accesses
• SPARC WRASR and CASA instructions
• SPARC registers handling in GDB
• memory invalidation on writes in MappedMemory
• ARM instructions: ASX, SAX, SUB16 and UQSUB
• symbol name mangling on MacOS
• updating PC before raising MMU exception on RISC-V
• unaligned ld_phys handling, resolves problems of possible memory corruption
• possible race conditions in TerminalTester
• IO access path selection in tlib
• support for big-endian peripherals
• running tests in sequential mode
• HiFive Unleashed platform description including PHY advertisement and RAM size
• Ethernet PHY advertisement on the Zedboard platform
• cross-endian bus accesses
• endian conversion wrappers for untranslated accesses
• registers mapping of fflags/frm/fcsr, resolving GDB registers XML generation
• running tests when the build phase failed
• it-status unit test
• added LibLLVM to all packages
• whitespace handling in resc scripts on Windows
• occasional assertion fail when loading ELF files
• setting breakpoints on virtual addresses
• MicroPython tests
• installation on Linux with a separate /opt mount point
• demangling symbols from the anonymous namespace
• SoftFloat's type conversion functions
• illegal instruction exception on wrong CSR access on RISC-V
• support for quad words access on the system bus
• possible memory leak in tlib
• improved precision of calculations in BasicClockSource and ComparingTimer Fixed
• support for various versions of standard libraries on Linux hosts (libdl, libutil, etc)
• libc dependencies for the Renode portable package
• invalidation of translation blocks on writes
• handling big offsets in MappedMemory
• ARM-M PRIMASK and xPSR handling
• PowerPC registers listing in GDB
• improved tlib debugging by not omitting the frame pointer on debug build
• fixed sfence.vma instruction implementation for RISC-V
• potential math errors (underflows/overflows) when handling the virtual time
• handling input redirected from file in the console mode
• prevented GdbStub from sending telnet config bytes on new connections
• serialization of paused state
• ad-hoc compiler support in the portable package
• flushing of log tester
• UartPtyTerminal serialization
• reporting the exit code in renode-test
• RISC-V custom CSRs handling
• resetting of a machine from the context of another machine
• thread-safety of interrupt handling mechanism
• occasional dependency fail on static constructors

Improvements in peripherals:

• CoreLevelInterruptor
• PlatformLevelInterruptController
• NVIC
• CortexAPrivateTimer
• BMA180
• CC1200
• Micron_MT25Q
• SynopsysEthernetMAC
• K6xF_Ethernet
• CadenceGEM
• OV2640
• GaislerMIC
• PL011
• EFR32_USART
• LowPower_UART
• OpenTitan_UART
• OpenTitan_GPIO
• IMXRT_ADC
• IMXRT_LPSPI
• LPUART
• STM32F7_I2C
• STM32_UART
• STM32 RTC
• STM32_TIMER
• STM32DMA
• STMCAN
• EXTI
• NRF52840_CLOCK
• NRF52840_Timer
• NRF52840 GPIO
• LiteX_I2S
• Litex_GPIO
• MPFS_PDMA
• MPFS_DDRMock
• Gaisler_GPTimer

For installation instructions, see the README.

Added:

• STM32F072 platform, with the STM32F072b Discovery board
• i.MX RT1064 platform
• NRF52840 platform, with Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense board
• OpenTitan EarlGrey RISC-V platform with a range of OpenTitan peripherals
• CV32E40P-based RISC-V platform with many PULP peripherals
• LiteX with RISC-V Ibex CPU platform support
• CrossLink-NX evaluation board
• ice40up5k-mdp-evn board
• Zephyr-based test suite for QuickLogic QuickFeather with EOS S3
• Tock demo on LiteX/VexRiscv and STM32F4
• Mbed demo on STM32F7
• integration with Arduino IDE and Arduino CLI
• Python Standard Library, to be used with Python hooks and scripts in Renode
• support for images in the Monitor, along with possibility to take framebuffer screenshots. This also works with certain terminal emulators, like iTerm2, when in headless mode
• option to connect UART to the running console, improving headless capabilities
• option to run Renode Monitor directly in console, overlapped with logs, using the --console command line switch
• support for virtual addressing in GDB
• option to combine multiple interrupt or GPIO signals into one, using logical OR, directly in REPL files
• multi-bus support and AXI4 support (both as an initiator and a receiver) in co-simulation with Verilator
• ability to send synthetic network frames in Robot tests
• various sensor models: MC3635, LSM330, LSM303DLHC, LSM9DS1, LIS2DS12, BMP180
• seven-segment display model
• support for camera interfaces for nRF52840 and other platforms, along with a basic HM01B camera model
• support for sound data via PDM and I2S interfaces in nRF52840 and EOS S3
• 32-bit CSR versions of various LiteX peripherals
• window-height and window-width Renode config file options

Changed:

• ad hoc C# compilation now uses the same, bundled compiler on all OSes, also allowing for compilation in the portable Linux package
• bumped the officially supported Ubuntu version to 20.04
• added execution metrics analyzer to all Renode packages
• verilated peripherals can now also be used on Windows and on macOS
• verilated UART peripherals have updated protocol message numbers, requiring them to be recompiled to work with the latest Renode version
• moved to use openlibm instead of libm on Linux, improving portability
• GDB can now access memory across pages in a single access
• switched the unit testing framework from NUnit2 to NUnit3
• reduced the number of transitions between the C and C# code, improving performance
• improved performance of peripheral writes
• tests print the run summary at the end of the output, making it easier to spot errors
• revamped handling of the vectored interrupt mode for RISC-V cores
• RISC-V CPUs can now optionally allow for unaligned memory accesses
• updated the default privileged architecture version for VexRiscv CPU
• VexRiscv can now use standard RISC-V interrupt model
• changed the flow of NVIC interrupt handling, significantly improving performance
• STM32F7 DMA2D and LTDC now support more pixel blending modes
• reimplemented and modernized several STM32 peripherals
• improved the model of K6xF Ethernet controller
• LiteSDCard model now supports DMA interface
• EXTI controller now has a configurable number of output lines
• improved handling of dummy bytes in MPFS QSPI

Fixed:

• tests running from installed Renode packages creating output files in forbidden locations
• serialization of NetworkInterfaceTester and UARTBackend
• possible non-deterministic behavior of UART backend in tests
• occasional file sharing violation in PosixFileLocker
• Renode printing out colors when in plain mode
• non-determinism in the button model
• time drift caused by unreported virtual ticks and improper instruction counting
• crash in TermsharpProvider when running on Windows
• invalid default frequency for STM32L1

For installation instructions, see the README.

Added:

• support for generating execution metrics, covering information like executed instructions count, memory and peripheral accesses, and interrupt handling
• infrastructure for reporting supported CPU features to GDB
• tests for Icicle Kit with PolarFire SoC
• --debug-on-error option for renode-test allowing interactive debugging of failed Robot tests
• lastLog Monitor command displaying n last log messages
• currentTime monitor command with information about elapsed host and virtual time
• WriteLine UART helper method to feed strings from the Monitor or scripts
• support for non-base RISC-V instruction sets disassembly
• support for custom Robot test results listeners
• support for Python-based implementation of (stateful) custom CSRs and custom instructions in RISC-V
• option to control RISC-V CSR access validation level interactively
• dummy support for data cache flush instruction in VexRiscv
• 64-bit decrementer support in PowerPC
• nRF82540 RTC model
• STM32F4 RTC model
• STM32F4 RCC stub model
• unified timer model for STM32F4 and STM32L1 platforms
• support for ATAPI CD-ROM
• burst read support in OpenCores I2C

Changed:

• time flow settings in Icicle Kit script now ensure full determinism
• all testers (for UART, LED, network, sysbus accesses and log messages) now rely on virtual time instead of host time and accept floating point timeouts
• portable package now includes requirements.txt file
• skipped tests do not generate save files anymore
• Clear Monitor command does not remove current working directory from searched paths
• WFI handling in RISC-V is simplified, improving performance on sleepy systems
• translation block fetch logger messages are now logged with Info instead of Debug level
• Cortex-M CPUs now reports their registers to GDB
• several infrastructural changes in the PCI subsystem
• STM32L1 oscillators are now all reported as ready

Fixed:

• Renode logo appearing in UART analyzer windows when running without Monitor
• logs not being fully written out when terminating Renode
• keyboard event detection in framebuffer window when no pointer device is attached
• crash when the logger console reports width equal to 0
• crash of ad-hoc compilation on Renode portable. Note that this still requires a C# compiler to be available on the host system
• crash when connecting GDB with the first core not being connected
• occasional crash when providing incorrect CLI arguments
• invalid disassembly of 64-bit RISC-V instructions
• crash on machine reset when using custom CSRs in RISC-V
• handling of multi-byte reads in LiteX I2C model
• handling of images with unaligned size in USB pen drive
• invalid LED connections in STM32F4

For installation instructions, see the README.

This is a hotfix release overriding 1.10.0.

Fixed:

• crash on Windows when accessing high memory addresses
• installation instructions in README

This release has a critical issue identified in #113 .

Please use Renode 1.10.1 instead of this release.

For installation instructions, see the README.

Added:

• support for the PolarFire SoC-based Icicle Kit platform, with a demo running Linux
• experimental support for OpenPOWER ISA
• support for NXP K64F with UART, Ethernet and RNG
• basic support for Nordic nRF52840
• Microwatt platform, with Potato UART, running MicroPython or Zephyr
• LiteX platform with a 4-core VexRiscv in SMP
• LiteX demo running Microwatt as a CPU
• LiteX demo with VexRiscv booting Linux from the SD card
• LiteX demo with VexRiscv showing how to handle input and output via I2S
• LiteX MMCM model, I2S model and SD card controller model
• several peripheral models for QuickLogic EOS S3: ADC, SPI DMA, Packet FIFO, FFE etc
• ADXL345 accelerometer model
• PAC1934 power monitor model
• PCM encoder/decoder infrastructure for providing audio data to I2S devices
• modular network server allowing to easily add server components to the emulation without a host-to-guest connection
• built-in TFTP server module
• file backend for UARTs, allowing to send output directly to a file (uart CreateFileBackend)
• alias Monitor command
• console_log Monitor command to simply print to the log window without level filtering
• --no-gui build option to build without graphical dependencies
• option to define an average cycles count per instruction, to be used by CPU counters
• code formatting rules for translation libraries, to be used with Uncrustify

Changed:

• Renode is now able to be compiled with mcs. This means that you can use your distribution's Mono package instead of the one provided by mono-project.com, as long as it satisfies the minimum version requirement (currently Mono 5.2)
• the default log level is now set to INFO instead of DEBUG
• all PolarFire SoC peripherals are now renamed from PSE_* to MPFS_*, to follow Microchip's naming pattern
• major rework of the SD card model, along with the added SPI interface
• RI5CY core can now be created with or without FPU support
• STM32 and SAM E70 platforms now have verified priorityMask in NVIC
• Cortex-M based platforms can now be reset by writing to NVIC
• easy way to update timer values between synchronization phases, significantly improving the performance of polling on timers
• tests are now able to run in parallel, using the -j switch in the testing script execution
• the pattern for download links in scripts for binaries hosted by Antmicro has been changed
• portable package now includes testing infrastructure and sample tests
• the LLVM-based disassembly library is now rebuilt, using less space and being able to support more architectures on all host OSes
• the C++ symbol demangling now relies on a CxxDemangler <https://github.com/southpolenator/CxxDemangler>_ library, instead of libstdc++
• failed Robot tests will now produce snapshots allowing users to debug more easily
• SVD-based log messages on reads and writes are now more verbose
• Terminal Tester API has changed slightly, allowing for easier prompt detection, timeout control etc.

Fixed:

• crash when running tests with empty tests.yaml file
• crash when Renode is unable to find the root directory
• crash when loading broken or incompatible state snapshot with Load
• several issues in the PPC architecture
• mstatus CSR behaviour when accessing FP registers in RISC-V
• PMP napot decoding in RISC-V
• evaluation of the IT-state related status codes in ARM CPUs
• invalid setting of CPUID fields in x86 guests
• PolarFire SoC platform description and various models: CAN, SPI, SD controller, etc.
• ODR register behavior in STM32F1 GPIO port
• State changed event handling in LED model
• invalid disposal of the SD card model, possibly leading to filesystem sharing violations
• some cursor manipulation commands in TermSharp
• performance issues when hitting breakpoints with GDB
• on the fly compilation of “*.cs” files in the portable Renode package
• Mono Framework version detection
• upgrading Renode version on Windows when installed using the msi package
• error message when quitting Renode on Windows
• running tests from binary packages
• support for testing in Conda Renode package
• other various fixes in Conda package building