.. zephyr:board:: qemu_cortex_m3

Overview

This board configuration will use QEMU to emulate the TI LM3S6965 platform.

This configuration provides support for an ARM Cortex-M3 CPU and these devices:

• Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller
• System Tick System Clock
• Stellaris UART

.. note:: This board configuration makes no claims about its suitability for use with an actual ti_lm3s6965 hardware system, or any other hardware system.

Hardware

Supported Features

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Devices

System Clock

This board configuration uses a system clock frequency of 12 MHz.

Serial Port

This board configuration uses a single serial communication channel with the CPU's UART0.

If SLIP networking is enabled (see below), an additional serial port will be used for it.

Known Problems or Limitations

The following platform features are unsupported:

• Memory protection through optional MPU. However, using a XIP kernel effectively provides TEXT/RODATA write protection in ROM.
• SRAM at addresses 0x1FFF0000-0x1FFFFFFF
• Writing to the hardware's flash memory

Programming and Debugging

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Use this configuration to run basic Zephyr applications and kernel tests in the QEMU emulated environment, for example, with the :zephyr:code-sample:synchronization sample:

.. zephyr-app-commands:: :zephyr-app: samples/synchronization :host-os: unix :board: qemu_cortex_m3 :goals: run

This will build an image with the synchronization sample app, boot it using QEMU, and display the following console output:

.. code-block:: console

    ***** BOOTING ZEPHYR OS v1.8.99 - BUILD: Jun 27 2017 13:09:26 *****
    threadA: Hello World from arm!
    threadB: Hello World from arm!
    threadA: Hello World from arm!
    threadB: Hello World from arm!
    threadA: Hello World from arm!
    threadB: Hello World from arm!
    threadA: Hello World from arm!
    threadB: Hello World from arm!
    threadA: Hello World from arm!
    threadB: Hello World from arm!

Exit QEMU by pressing :kbd:CTRL+A :kbd:x.

Debugging

Refer to the detailed overview about :ref:application_debugging.

Networking

The board supports SLIP networking over an emulated serial port (CONFIG_NET_SLIP_TAP=y). The detailed setup is described in :ref:networking_with_qemu.

It is also possible to use the QEMU built-in Ethernet adapter to connect to the host system. This is faster than using SLIP and is also the preferred way. See :ref:networking_with_eth_qemu for details.

References

1. The Definitive Guide to the ARM Cortex-M3, Second Edition by Joseph Yiu (ISBN 978-0-12-382090-7)
2. ARMv7-M Architecture Technical Reference Manual (ARM DDI 0403D ID021310)
3. Procedure Call Standard for the ARM Architecture (ARM IHI 0042E, current through ABI release 2.09, 2012/11/30)
4. Cortex-M3 Revision r2p1 Technical Reference Manual (ARM DDI 0337I ID072410)
5. Cortex-M3 Devices Generic User Guide (ARM DUI 0052A ID121610)