Release of version 0.3.20

Kopycat now is a fully open-source project. In this release we have tried to do our best to run different widespread systems on the emulator. Previous release could run STM32F0xx with FreeRTOS operating system. This time we have added various examples of firmwares for unittesting emulator and to work with different peripheral modules. The most exciting addition is that Kopycat runs Linux on ARM MCU's ARM1176JZ. All these examples are presented in sources and as prebuild modules. A lot of bugs have been fixed in the emulator core and modules.

Added

Core:

• full open-source release
• moved to OpenJDK and version updated to 11.0.x
• register bank system ARegisterBankNG to simplify configuring processor core (currently only in ARM)
• implemented fast wait-for-interrupt processing

Auxiliary:

• NANDGen - NAND modules generator based on standard NAND parameters
• NANDPart - NAND dump loader to partition dump by pages and add ECC in spares

ARM:

• implemented partially MCU ARM1176JZ (enough to run Linux 2.6.x)
• implemented ARMv6 Coprocessor and MMU
• implemented generic timer for ARMv6
• implemented NS16550 UART-controller
• implemented PL190 (VIC) Vector Interrupt Controller
• implemented VirtARM - a virtual ARM-based device
• U-boot and Linux prebuild binaries based on buildroot in example
• implemented DMA-controller in STM32F042

Others:

• different examples to show possible cases how to use Kopycat in projects
• tested development of firmware to STM32 controller using CLion and Kopycat
• Kopycat build plugin to simplify a configuration build.gradle of new emulator modules
• dokkaMultilang build plugin to generate documentation on multiple languages, each language tags with "{EN}"/"{RU}" tokens

Modified

Core:

• embedded Python interpreter fixes, add autodetect of Python version and Jep library path

ARM:

• fixed a lot of bugs in CPU's instructions
• fixed bugs in STM32F042

Pre-release of version 0.3.20

Kopycat now is fully open-source project. In this release we try do our best to run different widespread systems on Kopycat emulator. Previous release can run STM32F0xx with FreeRTOS operating system. This time we add various examples of firmwares for unittesting emulator and to work with different peripheral modules. But the most exciting addition is Kopycat runs Linux on ARM MCU's ARM1176JZ. All these samples presented in sources and as prebuild modules. Also, a lot of bugs has been fixed in emulator core and in modules.

Added

• Core: full open-source release
• Core: moved to OpenJDK and version updated to 11.0.x
• Core: register bank system ARegisterBankNG to simplify configuring processor core (currently only in ARM)
• Core: implemented fast wait-for-interrupt processing
• Auxiliary: NANDGen - NAND modules generator based on standard NAND parameters
• Auxiliary: NANDPart - NAND dump loader to partition dump by pages and add ECC in spares
• ARM: implemented partially MCU ARM1176JZ (enough to run Linux 2.6.x)
• ARM: implemented ARMv6 Coprocessor and MMU
• ARM: implemented generic timer for ARMv6
• ARM: implemented NS16550 UART-controller
• ARM: implemented PL190 (VIC) Vector Interrupt Controller
• ARM: implemented VirtARM - a virtual ARM-based device
• ARM: U-boot and Linux prebuild binaries based on buildroot in example
• ARM: implemented DMA-controller in STM32F042
• Others: different examples to show possible cases how to use Kopycat in projects
• Others: tested development of firmware to STM32 controller using CLion and Kopycat
• Gradle: Kopycat build plugin to simplify a configuration build.gradle of new emulator modules
• Gradle: dokkaMultilang build plugin to generate documentation on multiple languages, each language tags with "{EN}"/"{RU}" tokens

Modified

• Core: embedded Python interpreter fixes, add autodetect of Python version and Jep library path
• ARM: fixed a lot of bugs in CPU's instructions
• ARM: fixed bugs in STM32F042