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# $Id: README,v 1.10 2002/04/12 23:12:21 troth Exp $
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Simulavr: A simulator for the Atmel AVR family of microcontrollers.
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This program is still under development and is not ready for production
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use. The simulator is stable enough for rudimentary debugging work in
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conjuction with a gdb-5.2 (see README.gdb).
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At this early stage of development, when simulavr enters a failure mode, it
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will print an error message and abort, thus generating a core file. This is
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actually quite useful, since you can examine the core file and see what caused
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simulavr to get confused. This is similar to what happens when a program seg
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faults and dumps core, but the error message should at least tell you where to
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start looking since it gives the file name and line number where the error
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message was generated. As of version 0.0.14, I haven't seen simulavr abort in
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quite some time. Take that with a grain of salt. :)
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I've only been testing this with the at90s8515 since that's the only device I
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have right now to compare with.
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I am hoping to support all AVR devices, but am not going to work on the TINY's
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and MEGA's until I get all the features of the at90s* devices working, and
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have solid gdb support. If someone else would like to contribute code for TINY
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or MEGA support, that would be greatly appreciated.
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To build the simulator, you need to use gcc for now. There is some gcc
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specific code in the source. I'm only doing this for now since it makes
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debugging a little bit easier. I'll gladly accept porting feedback if someone
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wishes to work on that front. I'm currently only developing using RedHat 7.2.
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Some preliminary porting has been done on NetBSD and FreeBSD.
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To build my test asm and C files, you need to have gcc and binutils build for
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avr and installed in your path.
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See the INSTALL file for more information on building and installing the
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simulator.
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There is the beginnings of documentation in the doc/ directory. The build
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system should automatically build the info, postscript and html formats of the
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documentation. If for some reason you have trouble building the documentation
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from the texinfo source, check the simulavr web site. I hope to keep the
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latest versions of the documenation there.
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