After a UART, one of the most useful and interesting peripherals you can add to a board is a Real Time Clock (RTC). Qemu comes with a simulation of Freescale's MC146818 RTC chip. Adding it to our qemu-defined board was as simple as....

   rtc_mm_init(0x400, 0, 0, 0);

This …

Today we're introducing the notion of Board Support Packages (BSPs) to the moxie toolchain.

A BSP provides all of the configuration data and code requires to target a specific hardware platform. This mostly involves linker scripts, platform initialization code, and hardware abstraction support libraries.

Until recently the gdb sim was …