AVR System emulator — QEMU 5.1.0 documentation

# AVR System emulator

Use the executable `qemu-system-avr` to emulate a AVR 8 bit based machine. These can have one of the following cores: avr1, avr2, avr25, avr3, avr31, avr35, avr4, avr5, avr51, avr6, avrtiny, xmega2, xmega3, xmega4, xmega5, xmega6 and xmega7.

As for now it supports few Arduino boards for educational and testing purposes. These boards use a ATmega controller, which model is limited to USART & 16-bit timer devices, enought to run FreeRTOS based applications (like https://github.com/seharris/qemu-avr-tests/blob/master/free-rtos/Demo/AVR_ATMega2560_GCC/demo.elf ).

Following are examples of possible usages, assuming demo.elf is compiled for AVR cpu

> - Continuous non interrupted execution: `qemu-system-avr -machine mega2560 -bios demo.elf`

> - Continuous non interrupted execution with serial output into telnet window: `qemu-system-avr -machine mega2560 -bios demo.elf -serial tcp::5678,server,nowait -nographic` and then in another shell `telnet localhost 5678`

> - Debugging wit GDB debugger: `qemu-system-avr -machine mega2560 -bios demo.elf -s -S` and then in another shell `avr-gdb demo.elf` and then within GDB shell `target remote :1234`

> - Print out executed instructions: `qemu-system-avr -machine mega2560 -bios demo.elf -d in_asm`