Creating a wire with a direct pin-to-pin click (no user waypoints) now
routes around other components' bounding boxes instead of crossing
them. Routing happens exactly once, at creation: the routed corners are
stored as ordinary waypoints, so every later manual edit stays where
the user puts it — never re-routed.
Router (utils/wireAutoRoute.ts):
- tries the preview elbow first (clear -> keep existing behavior and
the WYSIWYG shape), then the opposite elbow, then A* over the
compressed grid spanned by pin coordinates and obstacle edges
inflated by an 8 px clearance, with a 40 px per-bend penalty so
straighter routes win
- obstacles are component boxes only (never boards — pins sit on both
board edges and detouring around a board produces absurd routes),
excluding the wire's own endpoint components, measured from the
rendered DOM; rects containing an endpoint are dropped
- any failure (walled-off target, oversized grid, no DOM) falls back
to the previous direct-elbow behavior
Hand-aligning a dragged segment could leave two parallel runs a pixel
or two apart, joined by a tiny perpendicular step, because alignment
snapping only ever targeted OTHER wires' geometry.
- Segment and bend-point drags now also snap (6 px threshold) against
the dragged wire's own points — excluding the ones being dragged —
so a run clicks into line with its neighbour and the exact
simplification fuses them into one segment on commit.
- fuseMicroJogs: parallel runs offset by under 2 px joined by a tiny
step are aligned automatically (the run not anchored to a wire
endpoint moves; shorter run yields when both are free). Applied at
render time and in renderedToWaypoints/normalizeWireWaypoints, so
already-saved crooked wires display straight without touching data.
Three wiring quality fixes:
- Rounded corners: every bend now renders as a quadratic curve
(radius 7, clamped to half the shorter adjacent segment), with
round line caps/joins. Segment/waypoint drag previews and the
in-progress preview use the same path builder so the look is
consistent everywhere.
- Degenerate geometry cleanup at render time: the expanded polyline
is simplified (duplicates, collinear runs, U-turns) before the
path is emitted, so wires saved with junk waypoints no longer
render on top of themselves. Stored data is untouched until the
user edits the wire.
- WYSIWYG commit: finishWireCreation materialises the final-leg
elbow exactly as the live preview drew it (longer axis first) and
normalises the stored waypoints. Previously the committed wire
fell back to horizontal-first and visibly changed shape on click.
simplifyOrthogonalPath moved to wireUtils (re-exported from
wireHitDetection for existing imports); the duplicated inline
expansions in SimulatorCanvas now use the shared helper. Waypoint
dots on idle wires removed (visual noise); endpoint dots stay.
Any pushbutton (pushbutton / pushbutton-6mm) can now be driven from the
keyboard. Assign a key from the component property dialog — a keycap
control captures the next keypress (Escape cancels, modifiers alone are
rejected) — and a keycap badge next to the component label shows the
mapping on the canvas. Several buttons may share one key on purpose;
the dialog shows a hint when that happens.
At runtime a global bridge translates keydown/keyup into the same
button-press / button-release DOM events the mouse fires on the wokwi
element, so every simulation path (avr8js pin logic, SPICE-driven
inputs, the QEMU GPIO bridge, the pressed visual) behaves identically
to a mouse click. Guards: ignored while typing in inputs or the code
editor, ignored with Ctrl/Alt/Meta held, auto-repeat collapses into one
long press, and window blur releases everything so no button sticks
after Alt-Tab.
The binding is stored as the component's 'key' property, so it
round-trips through project saves and .vlx exports and is undoable like
any other property edit. Strings added to all 9 locales.
Two velxio-native passive parts, rendered as web components with
programmatic SVG + precomputed pinInfo (velxio-breadboard 830 holes,
velxio-breadboard-mini 170). Pin names follow the Wokwi convention
(holes `18t.d` / `17b.i`, rails `tp/tn/bp/bn.N`) and the metadata ids
are `breadboard` / `breadboard-mini`, so wokwi diagram.json zips
import/export with no aliasing.
Internal connectivity (5-hole column strips, full-length power rails)
is centralized in utils/breadboardNets.ts and wired into every net
consumer:
- NetlistBuilder: unionBreadboardGroups joins wired holes per group at
the union-find level in buildNetlist, buildWireNetMap and
buildBoardPinNetMap — SPICE, the circuit verifier and the voltage
overlay all see one net per strip/rail with no extra cards.
- DynamicComponent.traceDetailed: the digital trace hops through every
other wired hole of the entered group, so parts wired through a
breadboard still resolve their board pin (2-terminal
PASSIVE_PIN_PAIRS could not express N-hole groups).
Verified end-to-end in the app: Uno pin 8 -> full-board column ->
resistor -> mini-board column -> LED -> ground rail -> GND lights the
LED, and the HUD shows the 3 collapsed SPICE nets. 8 new unit tests
(breadboard-nets.test.ts); netlist-builder + circuit-verifier suites
stay green.
Follow-up to the SSD1306 picker consolidation. All 68 saved projects that used
the retired ssd1306-i2c / ssd1306-spi ids have been migrated to the single
`ssd1306` (metadataId rewritten, protocol pinned), so the simulation aliases
are no longer needed and are removed.
- Auto-detect refined to CS-only: chip-select is the SPI-exclusive signal;
DC does NOT imply SPI (on the 8-pin module DC doubles as the I2C address /
SA0 line, so many I2C circuits wire it). Fixes false-SPI on those circuits.
- The `ssd1306` part honors an explicit `protocol` property when present
(migrated legacy projects carry it) and auto-detects otherwise.
- loadProjectState normalizes any lingering ssd1306-i2c/spi ids (old .vlx
files, pre-migration snapshots) to `ssd1306` + the matching protocol, so
removing the aliases can never blank an old import.
The SSD1306 was three picker entries — a generic `ssd1306` with a protocol
selector plus `ssd1306-i2c` / `ssd1306-spi` shortcuts (issue #101) — all the
same 8-pin wokwi-ssd1306 element. That is confusing for one physical module
(issue #215). Wokwi ships a single I2C-only part; this goes one better: a
single part that auto-detects the protocol from the wiring, like a real
breadboard — CS or DC wired to a GPIO means SPI, otherwise I2C. No protocol
switch to set, just wire it up.
Works on every board with an I2C/SPI bus (AVR, RP2040, ESP32 Xtensa, STM32).
The ssd1306-i2c / ssd1306-spi ids stay as backward-compat simulation aliases
for projects saved before the merge, but are removed from the picker. Adds an
i2cAddress property (0x3c/0x3d) matching the real module and Wokwi.
Note: ESP32-C3, Raspberry Pi 3 and the bare RISC-V board do not emulate I2C/SPI
peripherals, so no I2C/SPI device (this or any other) attaches there yet.
The slide-switch SPICE model only wired pin 1 <-> pin 2 (an SPST), ignoring
pin 3. The part is really an SPDT whose common wiper (pin 2) selects pin 1 at
value=0 or pin 3 at value=1, so a switch wired GND-1 / signal-2 / VCC-3 (the
natural Wokwi hookup) could never pull its signal high. Fixes the reported
ESP32-C3 case (issue #247) where only the green LED lit and the switch never
toggled the red one.
Second cause on that board: the ESP32-C3-DevKitM-1 exposes its supply as
3V3.1/3V3.2 and 5V.1/5V.2 (there is no bare 3V3/5V pin). VCC_PIN_RE has no
numeric-suffix branch on purpose (a dual-supply pin such as L293D VCC2 must
not collapse onto the shared logic rail), so those numbered pins floated at
0 V and the switch's HIGH side was dead. List them in boardPinGroups for
esp32-c3 / esp32-s3 / esp32-cam.
- componentToSpice: SPDT emission (both throws, complementary 0.01/1e9 R).
- digitalGateEngine: both driveSwitch paths (all-digital + mixed) made SPDT to
match, so the pure-digital paint and the ngspice solve agree.
- examples-digital / examples-circuits: rewire every slide-switch so the rail
feeds pin 3 and pin 1 is the value=0 throw, preserving value=ON=HIGH.
- spice-slide-switch-spdt-repro test reproduces issue #247 at the netlist level.
After deleting the default board and adding a different one via the canvas
picker, the editor kept editing the removed board's (now deleted) file group
while compile read the NEW board's default group — so code typed into the
editor was silently dropped and the board ran its default sketch ("compiles
fine but runs the old code"). addBoard now points the editor at the new
board's group when it becomes active, and removeBoard re-points it at whatever
board is active afterwards. setActiveBoardId already did this; the canvas
picker calls addBoard directly. Adds a regression test.
ESP32 digitalRead now reflects the actual circuit instead of a part-level
seed, so a button behaves like hardware — including breaking when it's
mis-wired.
- connectDigitalInputsToMcu: after each SPICE solve, threshold every ESP32
input pin's net voltage (3.3 V LVCMOS, hysteresis) and push the level into
QEMU. Only pins the MCU isn't driving as outputs are injected.
- Esp32BridgeShim advertises spiceDrivenInputs; the pushbutton / 6mm-button /
slide-switch parts skip their direct setPinState seed for such boards and
only flip the component property (pressed/value), which re-solves the
circuit. The connector then decides the level from the real wiring.
- makePinPullHandler no longer seeds the pin; it only records the pull
(netlist resistor) + requests a re-solve, so the read stays circuit-driven.
- GROUND_PIN_RE now matches bare numbered grounds (GND2, GND3) — the ESP32
DevKit element labels its second pad 'GND2', which previously floated.
Net effect: a correctly-wired INPUT_PULLUP button idles HIGH and reads LOW
pressed; a button mis-wired with GND on the wrong terminal reads stuck-LOW,
matching real silicon. AVR / RP2040 keep the legacy part-seed path.
INPUT_PULLUP / INPUT_PULLDOWN had no effect in simulation: the ESP32's
internal pull resistors live inside QEMU and were invisible to the SPICE
solver, so an input wired to a button-to-GND floated to 0 V and read LOW
even at idle. The canonical active-low button never worked.
Read the pull config straight out of the running guest: the IO_MUX
register (FUN_PU bit 8 / FUN_PD bit 7) is already exposed read-only via
qemu_picsimlab_get_internals(3), so no QEMU rebuild is needed. The worker
scans it on the 100 ms poll thread and emits gpio_pull; the bridge feeds
it to PinManager; the netlist stamps a weak 45k resistor to the rail so
idle inputs read the correct level. 45k matches the real internal pull
and is weak enough that any external driver/pull dominates.
Verified with ngspice: idle ~3.3 V (HIGH), pressed ~0 V (LOW).
The pushbutton was modelled as a switch between only 1.l and 2.l; the
other two legs (1.r, 2.r) connected to nothing. Wiring GND/GPIO to those
legs silently produced a dead button, and the failure was invisible.
Model it like hardware: 1.l is internally shorted to 1.r and 2.l to 2.r,
and pressing bridges terminal 1 to terminal 2. Wiring to any leg now
works, and putting GPIO and GND on the same terminal is a dead short,
exactly as on a real tactile switch. Back-compat A/B variant preserved.
recordUpdateWire pushed its command with { applyNow: false }, so it recorded the
change for undo but never executed it. Its only callers (the wire colour palette
and the new right-click menu) pass the new colour and expect it applied — neither
pre-applies via the raw updateWire mutator. Net result: changing a wire colour
from the UI did nothing (only the 0-9/c/l/m/p/y keyboard shortcut, which calls
updateWire directly, worked). Drop applyNow:false so it applies like every other
record* command (recordRemoveWire etc.). Adds an undo/redo regression test.
SSD1306Core only handled horizontal/vertical addressing (0x20/0x21/0x22) and
defaulted memMode to horizontal. Page-mode drivers (Tiny4kOLED on ATtiny85,
U8g2 page buffer, classic SSD1306 libs) position the cursor with the single-byte
commands 0xB0-0xB7 (page) and 0x00-0x0F / 0x10-0x1F (column nibbles) and rely on
the SSD1306 power-on default of PAGE addressing — they never send 0x20. velxio
ignored those cursor commands and advanced in horizontal mode, so every setCursor
was a no-op and the hatching/border/text piled onto wrong rows -> garbled display.
Fix: default memMode=2 (datasheet power-on) and handle the page/column-set
commands. Adafruit_SSD1306 still works (it sends 0x20,0x00 + 0x21/0x22 explicitly).
Verified: decoded the real ATTinyCore Tiny4kOLED I2C stream renders a clean
border + '128x64'. Adds a page-addressing render test.
AVRSimulator used wrong ATtiny85 Timer0 data-space addresses: OCR0A 0x56
(=PINB), OCR0B 0x5c (=EECR), TCCR0A 0x4f (=TCNT1). analogWrite() writes
OCR0B at data 0x48, so pollPwmRegisters() read the wrong register and PWM
duty was never seen — attiny85-pwm-fade showed no fade. Corrected both
PWM_PINS_TINY85 and attiny85Timer0Config to TCCR0A=0x4A/OCR0A=0x49/OCR0B=0x48
(verified against the ATTinyCore analogWrite disassembly). delay()/millis
(overflow-based) was unaffected. Tests updated off the old 0x5c/0x56.
Generalizes the LED's burnout to passive parts via a centralized monitor that
watches the live electrical solve. When a part is stressed past its rating for
a sustained moment it's marked "destroyed": the canvas renders it charred with a
smoke badge and a fault is logged to the output console. Clears on Reset.
Follows the Fritzing-simulator precedent (smoke-on-component) wrapped in a
first-order thermal delay so a brief inrush spike doesn't destroy a part — only
sustained overload (or a catastrophic >=3x overload, instant) does.
- runtimeBurnout.ts: pure stress (resistor power, cap voltage / reverse) + a
thermal-delay burn decision, plus a monitor subscribed to the electrical +
simulator stores. Resistor burns past 2x rated (the verifier already warns at
1x for intentional teaching over-power); a cap bursts over its voltage rating
or on reverse polarity.
- useSimulatorStore: burntComponents set + mark/clear actions; cleared on
Reset / restartParts.
- DynamicComponent + SimulatorCanvas.css: charred filter + smoke badge.
Tests: thermal-delay decision (instant / sustained / spike / cooldown) + stress
computation (resistor power, cap over-voltage, reverse, unwired -> null).
- Power short (blocking error): a wire joining a VCC-type pin directly to a
GND-type pin shorts the supply to ground. The current-based short-circuit
rule only inspects battery/signal-generator/power-supply sources, so it
misses a board-rail-to-GND short with no such source -> name it structurally.
- Shorted-out part (warning): a 2-terminal part with both terminals on the same
node has no effect on the circuit.
Both graph-based, run before the solve. Zero false positives across the 69
gallery examples; gallery pre-flight tests still pass (no spurious blocking).
First slice of the connection ("malas conexiones") checks, graph-based and run
before the solve so they report even on circuits too incomplete to solve:
- Missing power: a rated peripheral (sensor/display) wired into the circuit but
missing its VCC or GND connection -> warning. Boards are excluded (they live
in input.boards and self-power).
- Dangling 2-terminal part: a resistor / LED / capacitor / diode / inductor
connected on only one side (the other terminal floating) -> warning.
Both non-blocking. Verified zero false positives across all 69 gallery
examples. Tests: dangling resistor warns, fully-wired doesn't, module missing
GND warns.
Extends the over-voltage rule to the two cases the previous slice deferred:
- Boards (ESP32 / Pico / Arduino / ...): a board's supply pins all collapse to
the self-driven vcc_rail net, so an external source on them makes the .op
singular rather than readable. Added a graph-based check (runs before the
solve): if a power source is wired to a board supply pin and its nominal
voltage exceeds that pin's rating, warn. Threaded boardKind into
BoardForSpice so the verifier can look up the board rating.
- Electrolytic capacitors: new `voltage` rating property (select, default 25V,
on capacitor-electrolytic + cap-elec-* presets, via component-overrides +
regenerated metadata). The verifier reads the DC voltage across the +/- pins
and warns on over-voltage (vent/burst) and on reverse polarity (a polarized
cap wired backwards). Defaults to 25V when the property is unset.
Tests: 9V battery -> ESP32 VIN warns, 1.5V doesn't; 24V across a 16V cap warns,
5V across a 25V cap doesn't; reverse-biased cap warns. All real-ngspice.
Adds a non-blocking circuit-verifier rule: a component whose supply pin sees
more than its datasheet absolute-maximum voltage warns ("X V on the VIN pin --
above its Y V maximum; not emulated accurately"). This is the "fed too much
voltage" mistake the operator asked for (a 3.3-5V module wired to a 9V battery).
- New componentRatings.ts: per-PIN abs-max table (SSD1306/ILI9341 displays,
DHT/BMP280/HC-SR04/MPU6050 sensors, NeoPixel, servo). Per-pin thresholds so a
3V3 pin (3.6V) and a VIN pin (6V) are judged separately. Unknown parts are
simply not checked; an unwired or floating supply pin is skipped.
- circuitVerifier reads each rated part's supply-vs-ground voltage from the
solved nets (via pinNetMap) and warns when it exceeds the rating.
- VCC/VDD/3V3/5V pins ride the shared vcc_rail net (NetlistBuilder convention);
VIN is a normal net. Both handled.
- Tests: 9V on a module VIN warns; 5V on VIN does not; a 3.3V pin on a 5V rail
warns.
Boards (esp32/pico/arduino) carry ratings in the table but aren't checked yet
-- BoardForSpice doesn't thread its boardKind; follow-up.
The pre-flight circuit verifier reads branch currents via runNetlist ->
readAllCurrentVectors() (ngSpice_AllVecs enumeration). The production
Web-Worker ngspice WASM build does not surface voltage-source #branch
vectors through that enumeration for an .op plot, so branchCurrents came
back empty and every current rule (short-circuit, LED over-current) read
?? 0 -> no fault. The live solver avoided this by requesting each current
explicitly by name; the Node test build enumerates them, so the gap was
invisible to the suite. Net effect: a 9V battery wired straight to an LED
ran with no warning (reported on project 2840fd12).
- runNetlist: request every V_* source branch current explicitly by name
and merge with the enumeration, so source/LED currents are always present
regardless of the worker WASM's AllVecs behaviour.
- circuitVerifier: non-finite source/LED current -> blocking unstable-solve
fault ("could not solve a stable current - likely a short or a part with
no current limit, e.g. an LED with no series resistor").
- LED runtime (BasicParts): burn out on a non-finite current instead of
falling through to the digital fallback and glowing; raise burnout
threshold 20mA -> 100mA so high-power/RGB channels are not falsely
destroyed; clear the burnt latch on Reset (resetBoard bumps hexEpoch).
Tests: real-data repro, mocked non-finite verifier test, runtime
non-finite / high-power / latch-recovery tests.
AVRSimulator never instantiated avr8js's AVREEPROM peripheral, so any
EEPROM.read/write/update hung the sketch: the Arduino EEPROM library spins
on `while (EECR & (1<<EEPE))` waiting for the write-complete bit to clear,
and with no peripheral driving EECR that bit never cleared (issue #203 —
EEPROM.update(0,123) + EEPROM.read(0) hangs instead of printing 123).
Wire AVREEPROM to the CPU in both loadHex() and reset() via a new
attachEeprom() helper. The EEPROMMemoryBackend is created once per
simulator instance and reused across firmware reloads and resets, so a
value written in one run is still readable on the next boot — matching
real hardware, where re-flashing leaves EEPROM intact. Sizes per variant
(Uno 1024 B, Mega2560 4096 B, ATtiny85 512 B); ATtiny85 gets its own
register map (EECR 0x3C / EEDR 0x3D / EEARL 0x3E / EEARH 0x3F) since
avr8js's default eepromConfig targets the ATmega328P.
Adds eeprom.test.ts: drives the EEPROM register protocol against the
production AVRSimulator (loadHex + step), asserting a byte round-trips,
the EEPE poll terminates (no hang), and contents survive a reset.
The NTC breakout's SPICE topology was inverted relative to the example
sketch's decode formula (rNtc = R_PULL * v / (5 - v)), which assumes a 10k
pull-up from VCC to OUT and the NTC from OUT to GND. The mapper had the NTC
on top (VCC->OUT) and the pull-down on the bottom, so the recovered
temperature ran backwards: dragging the slider to 100C made the sketch
print -25C. Swap the two resistors so V_OUT = 5 * Rntc / (Rntc + Rpull),
matching the sketch and the hand-built reference netlist in
spice-avr-mixed.test.ts (T=0 -> ADC 789, T=25 -> 511, T=50 -> 270).
Also replace the SensorParts linear approximation (2.5 - (t-25)*0.02) with
the same beta-model divider so the non-SPICE ADC injection decodes back to
the slider value, and drop the dead onInput path that treated the element's
value as a raw ADC count.
Reset now restores interactive sensors (temperature/lux/gas sliders) to
their configured defaults: resetBoard re-dispatches each sensor's default
into the running sim and bumps sensorResetNonce so the open
SensorControlPanel remounts and the slider snaps back. Previously a restart
left the NTC frozen at the last dragged temperature.
Updated the examples netlist snapshot for the swapped NTC cards.
The Pico W WiFi showcase examples are a paid-overlay feature now (the WiFi
engine moved to the overlay). Read them through a build-time `@pro` seam so the
SSR prerender + gallery + sitemap include them when built with the overlay, and
OSS gets an empty stub.
- data/examples.ts: import { proExamples } from '@pro/data/proExamples' (static,
build-time) instead of the local examples-picow-wifi.ts; delete that file.
- src/__pro_stub__/data/proExamples.ts: OSS no-op (empty list) for the @pro alias.
- vitest.config.ts: mirror the @pro alias (stub by default / overlay when
VITE_PRO_BUILD) so tests loading examples.ts resolve it.
- scripts/generate-sitemap.mjs: also parse <PRO_OVERLAY_PATH>/data/proExamples.ts
when building with the overlay (the script reads example IDs from source text,
so it can't follow the alias).
- Tests: drop the picow-wifi import/usage from the 5 OSS example tests (they
validate the OSS set now); prune the 4 obsolete picow netlist snapshots. The
overlay's proExamples get their own coverage in pro/.../__tests__/.
The stored snapshot predated the relay-LED netlist emission (current-sense
V-source + LED diode model), so examples-netlist-snapshot failed on a clean
checkout regardless of any source change. Regenerate it to match the current
NetlistBuilder output. Unblocks the deploy test gate.
Move the CYW43439 (Pico W) WiFi emulation out of the open-source tree so it
can ship as a paid feature in a private overlay. OSS keeps a plain Pico W
(no WiFi); the overlay registers the cyw43 protocol + backend network stack
at runtime via generic seams.
Frontend:
- Add simulation/PioPeripheral.ts: a generic "PIO bus peripheral" seam
(feedWord / inDiscardableWriteData / resetFraming / hostWakeLevel /
onHostWake / onSimulationStart). No factory is installed in OSS, so
createPioPeripheral() returns null and a Pico W simulates as a plain Pico.
- RP2040Simulator: keep the fragile PIO-FIFO plumbing (it must re-run after
loadMicroPython swaps the chip) but drive it through PioPeripheral instead
of an inlined cyw43 import (attachCyw43 -> attachPioPeripheral, etc.).
- useSimulatorStore: generic attach/detach + setBoardWifiStatus; drop the
cyw43 bridge map.
- MicroPythonLoader: add registerFirmwareVariant() so an overlay can add the
RPI_PICO_W build; remove the OSS pico-w config + bundled .uf2.
- Delete simulation/cyw43/ (moved to the overlay).
Backend:
- core/hooks.py: add generic register_ws_sim_handler / dispatch_ws_sim_message
and register_gateway_proxy / dispatch_gateway_proxy seams.
- simulation.py: route start_picow / stop_picow / picow_packet_out through the
ws_sim_handler hook (the overlay handles + gates them).
- iot_gateway.py: resolve the Pico W gateway through the gateway_proxy hook.
- Delete services/picow_net/ + picow_net_bridge.py (moved to the overlay).
Tests: move the cyw43/picow suites to the overlay; update RP2040Simulator
mock stubs to attachPioPeripheral.
The served page loads under /api/gateway/<id>/, so absolute fetches like
fetch('/on') hit velxio.dev/on instead of the chip — the LED/relay/servo
controls did nothing. Use relative paths (fetch('on')) so they resolve
under the gateway. The relay example now has real ON/OFF buttons and
wraps its blocking accept loop in try/except so a dropped browser
connection can't kill it.
e2e now fires two sequential requests (first with a browser-sized header)
against a non-resilient blocking server and asserts both are served.
- SerialMonitor linkifies http://10.13.37.x (the Pico W subnet) the same
way it already does http://192.168.4.x for the ESP32, turning the
sketch's printed URL into an 'Open IoT Gateway' link.
- SimulatorCanvas shows the clickable WiFi badge for the Pico W too
(normalizing its 'started' status, which carries the fixed IP, to
got_ip so it reuses the ESP32 badge styling + launcher).
- async-led and servo-web examples print a clickable http://<ip>/ line
so the gateway link appears (relay-web-server already did).
Gated e2e (CYW43_GATEWAY_E2E=1) drives the real emulator + a running
backend and asserts the served page comes back through /api/gateway.
Wi-Fi sketches on the emulated Pico W associate via the chip's built-in
virtual net (DHCP/ARP answered locally), but outbound traffic had no
route, so DNS/MQTT/HTTP failed with OSError -2.
Wire the emulator's outbound DATA path to the backend picow_net bridge:
- Cyw43Emulator forwards every outbound Ethernet frame EXCEPT DHCP/ARP
(still answered locally) to firePacketOut -> the WS bridge, which NATs
DNS/TCP/UDP to the real internet and injects replies back.
- The virtual net stays ON unconditionally and shares the backend's
subnet, gateway and gateway MAC (10.13.37.0/24, gw 10.13.37.1). Nothing
is mutually exclusive, so an absent or flaky bridge can never break the
Wi-Fi association -- it just falls back to no-internet, as before.
- useSimulatorStore opens the bridge (cyw43.connect()) for Wi-Fi sketches.
Validated end to end against a running backend: WiFi connect + DHCP, DNS
resolves example.com, TCP connect + HTTP GET returns 200 OK. Gated e2e in
picow-bridge-e2e.investigate.test.ts (CYW43_BRIDGE_E2E=1).
The CYW43439 F2 (radio frame) channel is word-oriented: the real chip
always drives frames padded up to a 4-byte boundary and the host reads
that word-aligned length, byte-swapping every 32-bit word on the way in.
encodeSdpcm built buffers of exactly 12 + payload bytes, so any frame
whose total length was not a multiple of 4 ended with a partial word.
The emulator's F2 read path (encodeFrameWords) byte-swaps whole words and
copies the leftover tail raw; the host's symmetric per-word swap then
mangles that final word, corrupting the last 1-3 bytes of the frame.
This was invisible for DHCP/ARP (UDP checksum 0 -> lwIP skips the check,
and the damage lands in trailing option padding) but silently dropped
every DNS answer and TCP segment (real checksum -> lwIP discards the
frame), so getaddrinfo()/connect() retried forever.
Pad the backing buffer to a 4-byte boundary while keeping the size header
at the true length, so the driver still parses exactly the real frame and
ignores the pad. Matches real hardware framing.
Headless test that drives the REAL RP2040Simulator (attachCyw43 +
installCyw43PioHooks + lockstep PIO stepping in runFrameForTime), boots
the Pico W firmware, injects a WiFi-connect snippet over the raw REPL, and
asserts isconnected(). Result:
PYBOOT
ACTIVE False (this fw's active() getter reports link status)
CONN_OK 192.168.4.2 (DHCP-leased IP, isconnected() == True)
MAINPY_DONE
Reaches link-up in ~31s wall — the production lockstep PIO stepping is
faster than the harness's setTimeout-cranked PIO.
Also fixes a real production bug: the RP2040 logger was
ConsoleLogger(LogLevel.Error) which THROWS on rp2040js unaligned-read
warnings — lwIP reads the IPv4 header at ethernet offset 14 on every
received packet, so WiFi would have crashed on the first DHCP reply.
Now constructed with throwOnError=false.
Gated behind CYW43_PROD_HARNESS=1 (boots real firmware, ~30s).
The Pico W now connects end to end with NO backend: status reaches
CYW43_LINK_UP (3) and network.WLAN().isconnected() returns True.
After association the STA's lwIP broadcasts DHCP DISCOVER and ARPs the
gateway over the cyw43 DATA channel. A self-contained virtual network
(new virtualNet.ts) answers them:
- DHCP DISCOVER -> OFFER, REQUEST -> ACK (Ethernet+IPv4+UDP+BOOTP, valid
IPv4 header checksum, UDP checksum 0), leasing 192.168.4.2 with gateway
192.168.4.1.
- ARP who-has the gateway -> is-at the AP MAC.
On by default (Cyw43EmulatorOptions.virtualNet); pass null when an
external packet bridge owns the network.
Also fixes injectPacket to prepend the 4-byte BDC header that chip->host
DATA frames need (same as the event-frame fix), so injected packets parse.
Boot harness now reports: STEP_CONNECT_CALLED status=3 / POLL 0 status 3
conn True / HARNESS_DONE.
Known: receiving packets triggers ~30 rp2040js unaligned-read warnings
(lwIP reads the IPv4 header at ethernet offset 14); non-fatal here, but
the production RP2040Simulator must use a non-throwing logger.
The Pico W now joins the virtual AP end to end: active(True) returns,
connect() runs the full WPA/SET_SSID sequence, and the link comes up.
Root causes fixed (each blocked the join):
- mcast_list GET returned empty, so the driver read its own request bytes
as the address count (ASCII 'mcas' ~1.9e9) and looped ~2e9 times,
hanging wifi_on. GETs now return a zero-filled buffer of the asked-for
length (count 0 / status 0), never empty.
- Async event frames lacked the 4-byte BDC header the driver expects at
SDPCM header_length, so it read the broadcast-MAC byte as data_offset
and the payload pointed out of bounds (WRONG_PAYLOAD_TYPE). Prepend BDC.
- WLC_E_LINK signalled link-up via the reason field, but the driver
checks ev->flags & 1. encodeEventFrame now takes a flags arg; LINK uses
flags=1.
- Join needs WIFI_JOIN_STATE_KEYED, which only a WLC_E_PSK_SUP(status=6)
event sets (connect(ssid, "") still configures the WPA supplicant).
Emit it on a successful join.
- Join events were raised synchronously during the SET_SSID ioctl, so the
driver processed them before cyw43_wifi_join set wifi_join_state=ACTIVE,
wiping the bits. Defer events until just after the ioctl reply.
- Event-mask stored 4 bytes misaligned vs queueEvent's read offset.
- SET/GET kind bit is 0x2 (SDPCM_SET), not 0x1.
Remaining for status UP / isconnected: DHCP (needs the packet-transport
bridge or an emulator-side DHCP responder).
Add PioBusSniffer.inDiscardableWriteData(): true while framing a large
non-F2 write (firmware/backplane bulk write the chip discards). The boot
harness drops those data words (keeping ~4 so the PIO raises TXSTALL,
which is all the driver's write path waits for) instead of bit-banging
the full ~224 KB through the PIO. F2/SDPCM IOCTL writes and every
count/command word are retained in full, so the bring-up still completes
the 23-IOCTL wifi_on sequence (F1 framing 3613 -> 97, F2 unchanged).
Also adds IPSR + PC-histogram sampling: confirmed the post-mcast_list
stall is thread-mode (no GPIO IRQ storm) inside MicroPython's host-side
cyw43_cb_tcpip_init (lwIP), above the chip emulation.
Unblocks the full wifi_on IOCTL sequence in the boot harness (clm_load
through the 23-IOCTL bring-up, no crash):
- Drive WL_HOST_WAKE (GPIO24, active-high): the driver gates poll_device
on this pin until its first packet (had_successful_packet), so without
it the first IOCTL response is never read. Emulator now exposes
onHostWake(level) and toggles it with the inbound-frame queue.
- Encode F2/SDPCM frame reads per 32-bit word (encodeFrameWords), same
as register reads: the DMA-in sets channel bswap=true, so an un-encoded
frame landed byte-reversed -> header_length read back as garbage and
the driver dereferenced ioctl_header at an unaligned address (crash).
Guarded to boot mode pass-through (no F2 traffic there; keeps unit tests).
- Fix SET/GET detection: SDPCM_SET is bit 1 (0x2), not 0x1; echo the
kind bit in IOCTL responses.
- Add IOCTL/SDPCM debug counters + sequence log for the harness.
Harness (investigation, CYW43_HARNESS=1 only): non-dropping TX FIFO so
large F2 writes are not truncated, crank PIO steps/tick so the firmware
drains in wall-clock, GPIO24 host-wake wiring, CPU-fault + PC-histogram
+ PIO-state instrumentation.
Remaining: stall after mcast_list (#22) inside cyw43_cb_tcpip_init.
cyw43_spi_transfer calls pio_sm_restart before each transfer's count words, so
hooking restart() to reset the sniffer makes framing deterministic across the
firmware-stream fast-path (no phantom-transfer carryover). Verified: restarts
fire 3625x (once per transfer), F1 phantom count drops, and the CLM IOCTL write
now frames correctly (cmd decodes to F2, 'clmload' payload). Wired into
RP2040Simulator + the harness.
Remaining (next session): the CLM/IOCTL write doesn't complete its payload and
wifi_on still fails (active()=False) — bus_init stalls at/around clm_load with
only 2 STATUS reads and goes idle. Next: trace the CLM write's DMA/PIO drain and
the SDPCM IOCTL response path. See findings.md F-13.
debugInboundCount + STATUS-read tracking show initInbound=1, statusReads=2,
statusReadsWithPkt=2, finalInbound=1: the credit frame IS visible at both STATUS
reads (not a credit tight-loop). The driver reaches clm_load's F2-ready check
(passes) but the F2 IOCTL write never appears on the bus and bus_init returns.
Next: instrument the F2-write path. See findings.md F-13.
Pins the connect blocker: zero F2 transfers (F0=11 F1=97 F2=0), so the host
never sends an IOCTL — it stalls on SDPCM bus credits in clm_load (STATUS shows
no F2_PACKET_AVAILABLE) and times out, so wifi_on fails and active() stays
False. Next: make the credit-granting frame visible in SPI_STATUS during the
stall. See project/picow-wifi-emulation/findings.md F-13.
Brings the Pico W CYW43439 gSPI emulation from "fails at the first register
read" to "the chip boots fully and MicroPython's network.WLAN().active(True)
returns" — validated end-to-end against the real RPI_PICO_W firmware via a
headless boot harness.
What now works (Phases 1-2):
- PioBusSniffer rewritten to the real cyw43_bus_pio_spi framing
[out_bits][in_bits][cmd][write_data], skipping the two PIO loop-counter
words. Self-healing: validates count1 (= tx_length*8-1, 4-aligned, <=2052)
and skips non-conforming words — re-syncs after the extra word rp2040js
pushes on large writes AND fast-paths the ~224 KB firmware stream.
- Dual word-order regime: boot 16-bit-LE (swap16x2 / swap16) flips to 32-bit
big-endian (bswap32) at the SPI_BUS_CONTROL write. Calibrated empirically
against the firmware. Sniffer reads the mode via setModeProvider().
- Cyw43Emulator: encodeReadWord (per-regime), readBytes-sized backplane reads
with the value in the last word (response-delay pad), ALP+HT clocks and F2
always ready, AI core registers (IOCTRL/RESETCTRL), interrupt register
reports no errors, f1Mem echo store, SDPCM bus-credit granting + initial
frame.
- RP2040Simulator: serves chip responses on rxFIFO.pull (on-demand) instead of
racing the async DMA/PIO; passes readBytes through.
Not done yet (Phase 3+): connect() runs but stalls in the power-management /
save-restore phase before any F2/IOCTL traffic; packet transport (Tier 2) and
firmware-clocking perf are open. See project/picow-wifi-emulation/ for the full
research, phases, and findings.
The boot harness (picow-cyw43-boot-harness.investigate.test.ts) is gated behind
CYW43_HARNESS=1 so it stays out of the normal test run.
Follow-up audit after the ESP32 fix: classifyPin() was run for every board
against the protocol pin labels its element actually exposes. One real gap
remained -- Arduino Mega. Its dedicated SDA/SCL pins are only labelled (not
numbered), so I2C links drawn on them came back 'digital' and never bridged.
Map every Mega function label (TX/RX, TX0-3/RX0-3, SDA/SCL) to its pin number.
Audit result for the rest (added as board-protocols-audit.test.ts):
- Arduino Uno/Nano, Pico/Pico-W, STM32 Blue Pill: already OK.
- ESP32 / ESP32-C3: fixed earlier (esp32-uart-pin-classify).
- Raspberry Pi 3/4/5: OK -- the element labels pins by physical number (1..40)
which normalize to BCM, so no function-label gap exists there.
Wiring two ESP32s TX2->RX2 (Serial2) or TX->RX for board-to-board serial
produced no data on the receiver: classifyPin() returned 'digital' for the
UART pins, so the Interconnect never installed the byte-level UART bridge.
Two causes in boardProtocols.ts normalizePinName:
- TX/RX aliases only matched boardKind === 'esp32' exactly, missing every
variant (esp32-devkit-c-v4, esp32-cam, esp32-s3), and TX2/RX2 were not
handled at all. Resolve them via startsWith('esp32') (esp32-c3 kept
separate) and map TX2/RX2 -> GPIO17/16.
- 'GPIO17'-style labels fell into the 'GP' (RP2040) branch first, where
parseInt('IO17') = NaN swallowed them to null. Exclude 'GPIO' from the
'GP' branch so the ESP32 GPIO-prefix handling runs.
Adds esp32-uart-classify.test.ts (6 cases, green).
Revert the earlier approach of widening the existing PWM-callback assertions to
accept the new timeMs arg — that masked a contract change rather than fixing it.
Instead, updatePwm now hands the optional timeMs only to listeners that declare
a 3rd parameter (cb.length >= 3) — i.e. the buzzer, which needs the precise
onset time. Plain (pin, dutyCycle) listeners, and the existing
toHaveBeenCalledWith(pin, dutyCycle) tests, see an unchanged 2-arg call, so the
original PwmCallback contract is preserved.
Add a PinManager test locking the dispatch: a 2-param listener stays 2-arg; a
3-param listener receives timeMs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The sample-accurate scheduling (06526c7) added an optional 3rd `timeMs`
argument to PwmCallback / updatePwm, which broke 9 existing strict
toHaveBeenCalledWith(pin, duty) assertions (PinManager, AVRSimulator,
mega-emulation, attiny85). Match the real signature: PinManager drives
updatePwm directly with no timeMs (assert `undefined`); the AVR OCR-poll path
computes timeMs = cpu.cycles / 16000 (assert `expect.anything()`).
Leaves one pre-existing red — component-to-spice "custom-chip missing fixture"
— which fails on master too and is unrelated to this PR.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A melody / continuous tone (consecutive tone() with no noTone() between) is
back-to-back nonzero-OCR PWM writes with no note-off, so startTone() overwrote
activeOsc without stopping the previous node — oscillators stacked and were
never stopped (reported: created 6, started 6, never stopped 6).
Add a monophonic guard at the top of startTone(): release the live note
(gain ramp + stop) before starting the new one, so a pitch change REPLACES
rather than STACKS. Extract a shared releaseActive(off) helper (also used by
stopTone). Add two melody tests: one asserts starts === stops (no orphans),
monotonic onsets and per-note pitch; one asserts a melody ending without a
trailing noTone() leaves only the final note ringing (stops === starts - 1).
The metronome path is unaffected (each click is an onset→note-off pair, so the
guard never fires there); the three existing metronome tests stay green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The `custom-chip` SPICE mapper emits its sources from getChipDrivenPins()
(the chip's live driven output pins), so a static pin/property fixture can
never exercise it -- it always returns null. The "every mapped metadataId
has a test fixture" check flagged it as missing a fixture, failing the
suite. Exclude it via a RUNTIME_STATE_MAPPERS set; custom-chip SPICE
behaviour is covered by the chip-bus integration tests.
Pre-existing since 4cb5748 (custom-chip first-class circuit nodes).
Add a working microSD card part backed by a FAT16 image, following the
Wokwi storage model: the project's own workspace files are auto-copied
onto the card (free), and an optional "SD Card" panel uploads extra
files (gated as a paid feature by the velxio.dev overlay; OSS default
allows it).
Frontend (in-browser AVR / RP2040):
- ProtocolParts.ts: rewrite the microsd-card part from a handshake stub
into a real SD-over-SPI device (reply-first Ncr timing, SDSC byte
addressing, single/multi-block read+write, CSD/CID, full CMD set).
- utils/fatImage.ts: dependency-free FAT16 super-floppy builder (8.3 + LFN).
- utils/sdCardFiles.ts: assemble the card image from workspace files plus
uploaded files; base64 helpers.
- components/simulator/SdCardPanel.tsx + ComponentPropertyDialog: upload UI.
- DynamicComponent + useSimulatorStore: build and inject the image on run.
- lib/proSdCardGate.ts: overlay-installable gate for the upload action.
- data/examples-storage-microsd.ts: Arduino Uno + ESP32 gallery examples.
Backend (ESP32 via QEMU):
- services/esp32_sd_slave.py: synchronous SD-over-SPI slave (Python port of
the browser part) with a sparse backing store, idle-state R1 tracking and
real CRC16 on data blocks when the host enables CRC (CMD59) -- both
required by ESP-IDF's sdspi driver.
- esp32_worker.py: route SPI bytes to the slave (returns MISO synchronously)
and feed write-only bulk transfers.
- esp32_lib_manager.py + routes/simulation.py: forward the FAT image
(sd_card.image_b64) from the start config into the worker.
Tested:
- frontend: protocol-parts, fat-image, sd-card-gate and microsd-real-firmware
(real Arduino SD.h on avr8js) -- 86 passing.
- backend: test_esp32_sd_slave (10) covering the ESP-IDF init sequence and
CRC16; validated end to end by running a real SD.h sketch in libqemu-xtensa
(mount, directory listing, read and write-readback).
The RP2040 core (125 MHz Cortex-M0) is ~8x heavier to emulate than the
AVR. The run loop used a FIXED per-frame cycle budget, and arduino-pico
delay() busy-waits the timer (no WFI), so a host that cannot sustain
125M instr/s rendered a 1s blink every 4-5s (sim ran in slow motion).
- Derive the frame budget from the MEASURED wall-clock delta (mirrors
AVRSimulator) instead of assuming a perfect 60fps.
- Add IdleSpinDetector: recognise a side-effect-free busy-wait spin and
advance the clock over it (capped at the next timer alarm / scheduled
pin change) instead of executing every idle cycle - the same idea the
WFI fast-path already uses for sleep(). Conservative: a bit-bang loop,
an input-poll that just saw its pin move, or a loop that calls out are
never elided; a false positive only ever advances time up to the
wall-clock budget, never past the next event.
- Bound WFI sleeps to the wall-clock budget so they advance in real
time across frames rather than leaping ahead.
Cuts emulation work for a delay-bound sketch ~1900x (125M -> ~65k
instructions per simulated second) so it tracks wall-time even on hosts
that cannot emulate 125 MHz in real time. Public API unchanged;
step()/stepCycles() untouched.
Adds rp2040-realtime.test.ts: IdleSpinDetector unit tests plus
end-to-end scheduler tests driving a real rp2040js core through a
hand-assembled busy-wait loop (no firmware fixture needed).
David Montero
ciegovolador