QEMU Emulation for ARM Cortex-R5

Overview

This board configuration will use QEMU to emulate the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ (ZynqMP) platform.

This configuration provides support for an ARM Cortex-R5 CPU and these devices:

  • ARM PL-390 Generic Interrupt Controller

  • Xilinx Zynq TTC (Cadence TTC)

  • Xilinx Zynq UART

Note

This board configuration makes no claims about its suitability for use with an actual ZCU102 hardware system, or any other hardware system.

Hardware

Supported Features

The following hardware features are supported:

Interface

Controller

Driver/Component

GIC

on-chip

generic interrupt controller

TTC

on-chip

system timer

UART

on-chip

serial port

The kernel currently does not support other hardware features on this platform.

Devices

System Timer

This board configuration uses a system timer tick frequency of 1000 Hz.

Serial Port

This board configuration uses a single serial communication channel with the on-chip UART0.

Known Problems or Limitations

The following platform features are unsupported:

  • Dual-redundant Core Lock-step (DCLS) execution is not emulated.

  • Xilinx Zynq TTC driver does not support tickless mode operation.

Programming and Debugging

Use this configuration to run basic Zephyr applications and kernel tests in the QEMU emulated environment, for example, with the Basic Synchronization sample:

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b qemu_cortex_r5 samples/synchronization
west build -t run

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

*** Booting Zephyr OS build v2.2.0  ***
threadA: Hello World from qemu_cortex_r5!
threadB: Hello World from qemu_cortex_r5!
threadA: Hello World from qemu_cortex_r5!
threadB: Hello World from qemu_cortex_r5!
threadA: Hello World from qemu_cortex_r5!
threadB: Hello World from qemu_cortex_r5!
threadA: Hello World from qemu_cortex_r5!
threadB: Hello World from qemu_cortex_r5!
threadA: Hello World from qemu_cortex_r5!
threadB: Hello World from qemu_cortex_r5!

Exit QEMU by pressing CTRL+A x.

Debugging

Refer to the detailed overview about Application Debugging.

References

  1. ARMv7-A and ARMv7-R Architecture Reference Manual (ARM DDI 0406C ID051414)

  2. Cortex-R5 and Cortex-R5F Technical Reference Manual (ARM DDI 0460C ID021511)

  3. Zynq UltraScale+ Device Technical Reference Manual (UG1085)