Eclipse Embedded CDT

A family of Eclipse CDT extensions and tools for GNU Arm & RISC-V development

GNU ARM Eclipse Windows Build Tools v2.4-20150324* released GNU ARM Eclipse plug-ins v2.8.1-201504061754 released

GNU ARM Eclipse QEMU v2.2.92-20150404*-dev released

This is the initial release of the GNU ARM Eclipse QEMU. It is mainly a technology preview (most of the supported boards are present, but functionality is limited and only projects created with the generic Cortex-M3 template are supported).

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Supported boards

The boards initially added to GNU ARM Eclipse QEMU are:

  • EK-TM4C123GXL – TI Tiva C Series TM4C123GXL LaunchPad Evaluation Kit (Experimental)
  • FRDM-K20D50M – Freescale Freedom Development Platform for Kinetis K20 USB MCUs (Experimental)
  • FRDM-K22F – Freescale Freedom Development Platform for Kinetis K22 MCUs (Experimental)
  • FRDM-K64F – Freescale Freedom Development Platform for Kinetis K6[34] and K24 MCUs (Experimental)
  • FRDM-KL25Z – Freescale Freedom Development Platform for Kinetis KL[12][45] MCUs (Experimental)
  • FRDM-KL26Z – Freescale Freedom Development Platform for Kinetis KL[12]6 MCUs (Experimental)
  • FRDM-KL43Z – Freescale Freedom Development Platform for Kinetis KL[34]3, KL[12]7 MCUs (Experimental)
  • FRDM-KL46Z – Freescale Freedom Development Platform for Kinetis KL[34]x MCUs (Experimental)
  • LPCXpresso-LPC1769 – Embedded Artists LPCXpresso LPC1769 Development Board (Experimental)
  • Maple – LeafLab Arduino-style STM32 microcontroller board (Experimental)
  • NUCLEO-F103RB – ST Nucleo Development Board for STM32 F1 series (Experimental)
  • NUCLEO-F334R8 – ST Nucleo Development Board for STM32 F3 series (Experimental)
  • NUCLEO-F411RE – ST Nucleo Development Board for STM32 F4 series (Experimental)
  • NUCLEO-L152RE – ST Nucleo Development Board with STM32L152RET6 (Experimental)
  • Netduino2 – Netduino Development Board with STM32F2 (Experimental)
  • NetduinoGo – Netduino GoBus Development Board with STM32F4 (Experimental)
  • NetduinoPlus2 – Netduino Development Board with STM32F4 (Experimental)
  • OLIMEXINO-STM32 – Olimex Maple (Arduino-like) Development Board (Experimental)
  • SAM3-H256 – Olimex Header Board for ATSAM3S4BA (Experimental)
  • STM32-E407 – Olimex Development Board for STM32F407ZGT6 (Experimental)
  • STM32-H103 – Olimex Header Board for STM32F103RBT6 (Experimental)
  • STM32-P103 – Olimex Prototype Board for STM32F103RBT6 (Experimental)
  • STM32-P107 – Olimex Prototype Board for STM32F107VCT6 (Experimental)
  • STM32F0-Discovery – ST Discovery kit for STM32F051 line (Experimental)
  • STM32F3-Discovery – ST Discovery kit for STM32F303 line (Experimental)
  • STM32F4-Discovery – ST Discovery kit for STM32F407/417 lines (Experimental)
  • STM32F429I-Discovery – ST Discovery kit for STM32F429/439 lines (Experimental)
  • STM32VL-Discovery – ST Discovery kit for STM32F100 Value Line (Experimental)
  • TWR-K60F120M – Freescale Kinetis K60 120 MHz Tower System Module (Experimental)
  • XMC 2Go – Infineon XMC 2Go Kit with XMC1100 (Experimental)
  • XMC1100 Boot Kit – Infineon CPU Card XMC1100 Boot Kit Entry Series (Experimental)
  • XMC1200 Boot Kit – Infineon CPU Card XMC1200 Boot Kit Feature Series (Experimental)
  • XMC1300 Boot Kit – Infineon CPU Card XMC1300 Boot Kit Control Series (Experimental)
  • XMC4200 Enterprise Kit – Infineon CPU Board XMC4200 Actuator (Experimental)
  • XMC4400 Enterprise Kit – Infineon CPU Board XMC4400 General Purpose (Experimental)
  • XMC4500 Enterprise Kit – Infineon CPU Board XMC4500 General Purpose (Experimental)
  • XMC4500 Relax Kit – Infineon CPU Board XMC4500 Relax Kit (Experimental)
  • XMC4500 Relax Lite Kit – Infineon CPU Board XMC4500 Relax Lite Kit (Experimental)

As clearly marked, support for these boards is experimental. The boards generally include the right ARM core ID and should reflect the real memory banks, but since currently QEMU supports only Cortex-M3 cores, the boards behave like Cortex-M3 cores, so the emulation is not yet very accurate.

Changes from QEMU 2.2.92

  • -verbose added, with multiple levels to increase verbosity; the first level of verbosity is always enabled by the plug-in, to get the feedback required when starting the server backend for the debugging session;
  • -semihosting-cmdline added, to define the semihosting command line, required when running unit tests;
  • build script for macOS, Debian 32-bit/64-bit and Windows 32-bit/64-bit (using MinGW-w64) added; the required libraries are build locally

Eclipse plug-in

The GNU ARM Eclipse QEMU is by design intended to be integrated with the GNU ARM Eclipse plug-ins. QEMU behaves like a GDB server, allowing to load the application into processor memory and debug as any real board. (Note: the Eclipse plug-in will be available shortly).

Known problems

The 64-bit version for Windows has some run-time problems and does not execute properly; it was deleted from the released files section; until a solution will be available, the 32-bit version of QEMU can be used on Windows 64-bit; fixed in release 2.3.50-201508051820-dev.

Download

The new QEMU can be downloaded from the GitHub Releases page.