espressif/esp-emulator
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What it is
Rust-based emulator that runs firmware binaries for several ESP32 series SoCs (C3, C5, C6, H2, P4, S31 RISC-V; S3 Xtensa), modelling CPU, memory, WiFi, BLE, Thread, Ethernet and crypto. The repository distributes an installer, prebuilt binaries, docs and helper tools; a browser…
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Embedded developers testing ESP-IDF firmware on ESP32 chips without hardware, and CI pipelines running firmware smoke tests
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