Getting Renode¶
Renode is available for Linux, macOS and Windows.
On Linux and macOS, you need to have
Mono installed on your computer. You
should follow the Mono installation
instructions and
install the mono-complete package.
On Windows it’s enough to have a fairly recent .NET Framework installed.
Then you can either install Renode from prebuilt packages, or compile it yourself.
Try out Renode quickly with precompiled LiteX demos¶
Renode comes with several precompiled demos, which can be used to verify everything works for you before starting to compile and use your own software binaries.
There are three demo scripts available:
litex_vexriscv_micropython.resclitex_vexriscv_zephyr.resclitex_vexriscv_linux.resc
To run them, start Renode using the renode command (or ./renode
if you built from sources).
You will see a terminal window pop up, which is the Renode CLI, called the Monitor.
In the Monitor type:
(monitor) start @scripts/single-node/<script_name>
(where is one of the above).
Voila! A UART analyzer window should appear and you should see LiteX booting the respective binary.