# The emulators/coldfire port

## coldfire-0.3.1 – Motorola Coldfire emulator

## Description

    The Coldfire Emulator is a Motorola Coldfire 5206 Emulator.  It's
    original beginnings date back to the fourth term (2nd year) of the
    University of Waterloo's Computer Engineering program (summer of 1999).
    The Electrical and Computer Engineering (E&CE) 222 course - Digital
    Computers - taught Motorola Coldfire 5206 assembly as an introduction to
    machine assembly language.  Since the Computer Engineering class of 2002
    is twice the size of previous classes, the demand for Coldfire boards
    was much greater than their availability.  (Also the fact that several
    classmates apparently didn't understand "NO food or drinks in the labs"
    and kept getting the labs deadbolted on us didn't help).  Thus, David
    Grant began his emulator project to work on labs without requiring the
    actual hardware boards.  Although the emulator progressed far enough to
    be used for the first three labs, interrupts were not yet implemented so
    the real boards were used for the final assignment.  The next term
    featured the course E&CE 354 - Real-Time Operating Systems - where a
    project involved writing a real-time executive (RTX) for the Motorola
    Coldfire 5206 platform. (Insert same problems with availability and
    stupid classmates here). So, the emulator was dusted off and developed
    in parallel with the RTX.

WWW: http://www.slicer.ca/coldfire/

Categories:
  emulators

## Library dependencies

## Build dependencies

- devel/gmake

## Run dependencies