Wednesday, April 23, 2008

QEMU vs SKYEYE

I have been looking for 'working from home' to spend couple of hours on 'WISHFUL' projects with the hardware boards. But being a (new)contractor is difficult to get VPN access . This constraint made me to think of emulators. Among many available, Skyeye and QEMU caught my eyes. Skyeye being a derivitive of ARMulator and legacy emulating tool for ARM. QEMU has many more new variants of ARM(upto Cortex and ARM MP core) being emulated. The question is which one is better? I am going to find out by trying both !

Wednsday I tried skyeye Hardy Heron, its awesome. I can successfully emulate many ARM based boards. Check this out for the ARM CPU and boards simulated by skyeye. http://skyeye.org/index.shtml
I am going to try writing some asssembly code for AT91 open hardware board.

This weekend I will be trying QEMU.

By the way I got some cool hardware to work at office. I need to catch up some time to do something with it.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Did you run the simulator under windows?