ePaper panels rendered rotated/misaligned on AVR and RP2040 (e.g. the 2.13"
Pico clock came out sideways and clipped). The ESP32 worker decoder was just
taught to compose in the controller's native RAM geometry and rotate to the
display orientation, but the browser-side SSD168xDecoder (used by AVR/RP2040)
still composed at display dims with no rotation, so the two diverged.
- SSD168xDecoder.ts: port the worker's native-window compose + rotation.
* Size RAM to the longer side both ways so a rotated native layout
(128x296 behind a 296x128 panel) isn't truncated.
* Compose in the active RAM window, then rotate via the inverse of
Adafruit_GFX setRotation(1). Detect orientation by BYTE width so a
non-multiple-of-8 native width (the 2.13" panel is 122 px) is handled.
* Track the UNION of windows per frame: paged drivers (GxEPD2 page height
< panel) set one partial window per page, so compose must use the full
native area, not just the last page's strip. Fixes the all-white render
on paged panels (1.54" Uno, 4.2" Pico, 7.5" ESP32).
* Add an isBwr option: B/W panels treat 0x26 as a 2nd mono plane (white
only if both planes white), tri-colour panels keep red-wins.
* Default the active window to display geometry; the firmware overrides it.
- EPaperPart.ts: pass isBwr = cfg.palette === 'bwr' to the decoder.
- esp32_spi_slaves.py / esp32_worker.py: mirror the byte-aware rotation +
window-union in the worker, and derive is_bwr from panel_kind on the
runtime sensor_attach path too (fixes the tri-colour ESP32 alert badge).
- test_epaper/ssd168x_decoder.py: re-port the golden reference to match
(keeps the 3-way TS/Python/worker identity invariant). Tests updated to
construct tri-colour cases with is_bwr/palette='bwr'.
- examples-displays-epaper.ts: the Pico VCC wire referenced '3V3(OUT)',
which the velxio-pi-pico-w element doesn't expose (it has '3V3'), so the
wire snapped to the board corner. Use '3V3'.
The chip-output board-less path existed (chipPinDrives -> SPICE voltage sources
-> LEDs). The INPUT direction was missing: a chip pin wired to a pushbutton had
its net solved by ngspice, but nothing fed that net's state back to the
PinManager key the chip reads via vx_pin_read. So a board-less chip could light
LEDs but never read a button (verified: i8080 counter stayed at 0 on press).
connectChipInputsToSolve subscribes to the electrical store and, after each
solve, thresholds every wired chip input pin's net voltage to HIGH/LOW and
triggerPinChange()s the chip's synthetic pin — updating getPinState (polling)
and firing onPinChange edges. Pins the chip is actively driving are skipped so
it never fights its own outputs. Hooked alongside connectAnalogInputsToMcu in
start.ts. Solver-agnostic; reads only the electrical store shape.
Also gives the board-less button examples a pull-down on each chip BTN pin so
they read a clean LOW when open (a button-to-VCC floats HIGH otherwise):
i8080-button-counter (2) and i8080-killbits (8).
- new connectChipInputsToSolve.ts; start.ts wiring.
- examples-retro-intel: pull-down resistors + wires for the button examples.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phase 1 of the run-system/UX work.
Stop bug: a programmable chip kept running after Stop when a board was present.
The chip rAF tick gated only on board presence (!boardless), so with a board it
ticked forever. Now it gates on the actual run state: board-less -> electrical
paused flag; with board(s) -> board.running. handleStop also clears every chip's
output drives (clearAllChipDrives) and re-solves so chip-driven LEDs go dark on
Stop instead of freezing at their last frame.
Examples to board-less (regulated power supply, no Arduino — the Arduino only
ever supplied 5V):
- z80-larson-scanner -> 'Z80 Comet Scanner': board-less, a faster TWO-LED comet
(scanner.s) so it's visually distinct from z80-larson-no-board's single-bit
walk; green/blue LEDs.
- i8080-killbits -> board-less (psu + resistors), keeps killbits.s as the chip's
editable program; buttons re-powered from the supply.
- i8080-button-counter -> board-less (psu + resistors); behaviour chip, program
baked in, so it shows a note (no editable file) and runs standalone.
banner-streamer stays Arduino-based (its TX/RX go through the AVR USART bridge).
- CustomChipPart: run-state-aware tick gate.
- EditorToolbar: clearAllChipDrives() helper + handleStop clears chip drives.
- examples-retro-intel: 3 conversions; drop now-unused sketch consts; add the
larsonScannerAsm comet program.
- Tests: board+chip routing now uses an inline synthetic example (gallery chip
examples are all board-less).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Velxio can now simulate one or more custom-chip CPUs with NO Arduino/ESP32
board on the canvas — a general-purpose electronics simulator, not an
MCU-only one.
- DynamicComponent: board-less parts get the real shared flat PinManager
(instead of a no-op stub) so a custom chip's digital pin writes/reads reach
the LEDs/inputs wired to it.
- CustomChipPart: the rAF tick respects board-less Run/Stop (freezes while
the electrical sim is paused); board behaviour is unchanged.
- EditorToolbar.handleRun: board-less Run compiles each chip's WASM/ROM and
re-attaches the parts (restartParts) so they pick up the fresh WASM, then
resumes the solver.
- useSimulatorStore.restartParts(): bump hexEpoch to force part re-attach.
- New example "Z80 Larson Scanner (no board)": a programmable Z80 + 8 LEDs +
the adjustable power-supply component, no MCU. The chip drives the LEDs
through the synthetic-pin + ngspice path added earlier.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
SDCC's z80 crt0 sets SP=0x0000 and makes its first stack push at 0xFFFF.
The chip only mapped RAM at 0x8000-0xBFFF (0xC000+ was MMIO/ignored), so the
stack landed on unmapped memory and a plain C program crashed inside crt0 —
before main — which is why z80-led-chaser-c compiled but drove nothing.
Extend RAM to cover 0x8000-0xFFFF (32 KB) with the MMIO window 0xC000-0xC0FF
carved out and checked first, in scripts/make-z80-cpu.py + regenerated
z80-cpu.c. Now SDCC's default stack works and "write C from scratch, click
Run" just works — no manual `LD SP` needed (dropped from chaser.c). Bumped
the chip WASM initial memory to 4 pages to hold the larger RAM buffer. Larson
(asm, SP=0xBFFF, LED at 0xC000) is unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A custom-chip output pin wired directly to a component (LED, resistor, ...)
had no Arduino pin on its net, so the chip could drive nothing and the pin
resolved to null. Now:
- Layer A (digital): such chip pins get a stable synthetic pin number
(syntheticPins.ts). traceDetailed resolves a chip<->component net to that
shared number, so the chip's PinManager drive reaches the wired components
through the existing digital event flow. A real board pin still wins.
- Layer B (analog/SPICE): a custom-chip mapper in componentToSpice emits a DC
voltage source on each driven output pin's net (recorded in chipPinDrives by
ChipRuntime), exactly like a board GPIO, and the chip requests an electrical
re-solve when it toggles a pin (electricalResolveHook -> service.tick).
So LEDs / resistors / analog parts wired to a chip output are driven by
ngspice too.
This makes the bundled Z80 / i8080 chip examples actually animate their LEDs,
and lets any custom chip drive components, passives and analog circuits from
its own pins. Non-chip circuits are unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Esp32Bridge logged every GPIO transition (one per SPI clock edge on a
display-heavy sketch), which floods the console and measurably throttles
the main thread and simulation throughput. A full-screen 320x240 ILI9341
raycaster went from ~0.3-0.6 FPS to ~6-8 FPS once this log was removed.
Keep the functional onPinChange / oscilloscope callbacks intact.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- ESP32 / Raspberry Pi / STM32 / Pico-W bridges built their WebSocket URL
from a bespoke API_BASE() that read only VITE_API_BASE (fallback
localhost:8001) and ignored the desktop shell's runtime-injected
window.__VELXIO_API_BASE__. On the desktop the sidecar runs on a random
127.0.0.1 port, so the sim WebSocket dialed localhost:8001 and never
connected: compile succeeded but the simulation never started. Honor
__VELXIO_API_BASE__ first; web (/api) and dev (localhost:8001) unchanged.
- nano-button-led example: button was wired D2->1a and 1b->GND (same
terminal), tying D2 to GND permanently. Rewire D2->1.l and GND->2.l
(opposite terminals), matching the other examples.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The stepper-motor and biaxial-stepper parts only decoded a one-hot wave-drive coil sequence, so they never rotated under the common two-phase full-step / Stepper.h / AccelStepper drive that Wokwi's own examples use -- only the servo moved. Rewrote both decoders to track the net magnetic-field vector of the coils (atan2 of the H-bridge currents), so the rotor follows wave, two-phase full-step and half-step drive alike, whether driven directly from GPIO or through a driver's outputs.
Also adds an A4988 STEP/DIR stepper driver (parity with Wokwi's wokwi-a4988): velxio-a4988 element renders the real Pololu A4988 Fritzing breadboard SVG (public/components/a4988.svg); MotorDriverParts.ts finds the wired stepper via the netlist and advances it one (micro)step per STEP rising edge in the DIR direction (MS1-3 microstep + active-low ENABLE). Metadata in component-overrides.json. Three examples (Uno/ESP32/Pico) wire MCU STEP/DIR -> A4988 -> stepper, coil map aligned to Wokwi (1A->B+,1B->B-,2A->A+,2B->A-).
Verified in-browser: motor rotates on Arduino Uno (avr8js) and Raspberry Pi Pico (rp2040js). tsc --noEmit clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
STM32 emulation (open-core, runs via libqemu-arm in the backend worker):
- backend: stm32_lib_manager + stm32_worker (GPIO, USART, I2C/SPI device models
reusing the ESP32 slaves, live sensor updates), arduino_cli STM32 branch,
start_stm32 simulation route.
- frontend: Stm32Bridge + Stm32BluePill(/BlackPill) web components (Wokwi SVGs),
board kinds, Interconnect/boardPinMapping/boardProtocols wiring, example
projects (blink, serial, I2C BMP280/MPU6050/DS1307/SSD1306/weather, 7-seg,
RGB, button, switch, stepper, cross-board interconnect).
- Raspberry Pi 4/5 board elements + thumbnails.
Pro board gating (generic OSS->Pro seam; entitlement logic lives in the overlay):
- lib/proBoardGate.ts: isProBoardKind (STM32 + every QEMU Raspberry Pi),
installBoardGateImpl/boardGateDecision, triggerProUpgradePrompt.
- PRO badge on those boards in the component picker; gate at the picker add +
the run backstop (startBoard).
- backend/app/services/board_access.py: server-side enforcement seam for the
simulation WebSocket; STM32/Pi unavailable -> Pro-framed message.
- desktop: generic QemuDownloadPrompt + Stm32QemuPrompt (download-behind-license,
mirrors the ESP32 prompt).
- .gitignore: never ship libqemu-* binaries in the public image.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The previous fix preserved display state on Stop so Resume could pick
up the multiplexed frame seamlessly — but that's Pause semantics, not
Stop. On a real Arduino, hitting the physical Stop is cutting power:
the next Run must boot from setup(), not continue at the saved PC.
User report on https://velxio.dev/example/uno-7segment :
> empieza a contar, le doy stop en el 6, le doy run y sigue desde 6
stopBoard now:
- calls sim.reset() (was sim.stop()) — CPU back to PC=0
- calls hardResetPinStates() (was the soft resetPinStates) — clears
cached states AND notifies listeners so 7-seg / NeoPixel / LCD
blank out instead of freezing on whatever was lit.
Reset and Stop are now the same cold-boot semantics; Reset still
additionally clears serial output + baud rate. The soft
resetPinStates() helper stays for internal SPICE-classification-only
paths that don't want listener fan-out.
Reporter feedback after 7aca3db: pressing Stop on the uno-7segment
example turned the 7-segment off, and pressing Start again left
random segments lit / no number at all. The previous fix made
resetPinStates() notify every listener with (pin, false) on both
Stop and Reset, which was right for Reset (full reboot) but wrong
for Stop:
- On Stop the AVR CPU is just paused. Internally it still has
PORTD=0xFF (or whatever the last drive was).
- resetPinStates blanked the pinStates cache + fan-out LOW
notifications. Display turns off, fine.
- On Start the CPU resumes from where it paused. avr8js's port
listener fires only for bits that CHANGED relative to its OWN
oldValue (which still holds the pre-stop value). If oldValue
matches the live register, no pinChange event fires for that
bit, and the display has no signal telling it to come back on.
Split the API into two methods:
resetPinStates() — soft cleanup, drops outputPins only. Used by
stopBoard. Cached pinStates and visual state
stay so the resume picks up where it left off.
hardResetPinStates() — full cleanup, drops outputPins + pinStates
and fan-outs (pin, false) to listeners.
Used by resetBoard (CPU starts at PC=0,
firmware re-drives every pin from setup()).
Updated the test helper clearAllPinManagerState to call
hardResetPinStates between tests so the same-state short-circuit in
triggerPinChange doesn't suppress fresh events.
All 32 vitest tests pass (AVRSimulator, interconnect-routing,
dual-arduino-software-serial, pin-position-rotation).
Two paired bugs that surfaced on the Reset button.
(1) 7-segment / NeoPixel / LCD freeze on last pattern after Reset.
resetPinStates() was wiping the pinStates cache + outputPins set
silently — no listener notifications fired, so visual components
that update on pinChange kept rendering whatever segments were
lit at the instant the user pressed Reset. Now we snapshot every
pin that was HIGH before clearing and fan out a synthetic
(pin, false) to each registered listener. Stateful displays
redraw cleanly to all-off; passive listeners (analog sensors,
debounce-only buttons) ignore the synthetic LOW and recover on
their next real write.
(2) Cross-board serial silently dies after pressing Reset. resetBoard
was unconditionally reassigning:
sim.onSerialData = (ch) => appendSerial(boardId, ch);
immediately after sim.reset(). The comment said "re-wire after
reset" but reset() does NOT clear that property — the new USART's
onByteTransmit chains through `this.onSerialData` which IS the
Interconnect wrapper. The reassignment destroyed that wrapper and
sibling-board UART forwarding (Uno TX → Nano RX) stopped working
until a full page reload. Same root pattern as the initSimulator
bug fixed in 5480052 — Interconnect's __icSerialHookInstalled
flag is on the live sim, so once the wrapper is blown away
nothing reinstalls it. Removed the reassignment and left a NOTE
so the next person doesn't reintroduce it.
Verified the AVRSimulator + dual-arduino-software-serial +
interconnect-routing test suites still pass (26 tests).
Cross-board UART forwarding silently broke for any project loaded
with > 1 board. User report: Arduino Uno → Arduino Nano serial echo
test where the Uno transmits fine but the Nano's Serial.available()
is never true.
Root cause traced live with chrome-devtools-mcp + temporary debug
logs in AVRSimulator.onSerialData setter and Interconnect:
1. loadProjectState → addBoard(uno) → createSimulator → sim.onSerialData = appendSerial
2. addBoard(nano) → same
3. setWires → Interconnect.updateWires → ensureSerialHook(uno)
wraps sim.onSerialData with a fan-out callback that ALSO pushes
to the Nano's RX queue. __icSerialHookInstalled flag set.
4. SimulatorCanvas mounts → useEffect calls store.initSimulator()
5. initSimulator unconditionally did:
simulatorMap.delete(boardId);
const sim = createSimulator(...); // ← brand-new sim
simulatorMap.set(boardId, sim); // ← Interconnect's wrapper is gone
The new sim's onSerialData is just appendSerial. The old sim
(where the wrapper lived) has been orphaned; Interconnect never
re-installs because its flag was on the discarded sim.
6. Run all boards → Uno.usart.onByteTransmit → this.onSerialData →
appendSerial (Uno's monitor shows TX) but no fan-out call →
Nano never receives anything.
initSimulator is a legacy single-board helper from the days when the
store only knew about one MCU. Multi-board flows already create
their sims in addBoard. Bail out early if a sim for the active
boardId already exists, so the legacy helper becomes a no-op when
the multi-board path has already done the work.
Verified the 3 related test suites still pass (AVRSimulator,
dual-arduino-software-serial, interconnect-routing).
User report: Arduino Nano connected to an Uno-TX wire received bytes
but displayed them poorly, and pressing Stop then Run "killed" the
serial link until the page reloaded.
Two paired bugs in the cross-board serial path:
(1) drainSerialRxQueue was only ever re-fired from usart.onRxComplete,
which itself only fires AFTER a successful delivery. If the very
first delivery attempt fails (rxEnable=false because the sketch
hasn't reached Serial.begin yet — extremely common when one board
starts emitting bytes before the receiving board's setup() runs)
nothing re-kicks the queue and every subsequent byte from the
sibling board sits in serialRxQueue indefinitely. Adding a
per-frame drain attempt (no-op when queue is empty or rxBusyValue
is set, so cost is negligible) makes the link self-heal across
cold-start races and Serial.end()/begin() toggles.
(2) stop() never cleared serialRxQueue. On Run after Stop the new
USART would re-drain the previous run's leftovers into the fresh
sketch before its setup() ran, corrupting the first bytes the
user saw on the receiving side. Clearing the queue in stop() —
same place we already clear scheduledPinChanges — keeps each Run
a clean slate.
Verified 52 existing tests still pass (dual-pico-serial-passthrough,
dual-arduino-software-serial, interconnect-routing, avr-uart-tx
-waveform, serial-batching, AVRSimulator, pin-position-rotation).
avr8js's usart.writeByte(value) rejects the call (returns false, drops
the byte) whenever rxBusyValue is set — and rxBusyValue stays true for
one full cyclesPerChar after each accepted call. The old serialWrite()
fed every character in a synchronous for-loop, so only the first byte
made it through and the sketch saw 'h' when the user typed 'hello\n'.
Buffer pending bytes in serialRxQueue and pump them one at a time:
- serialWrite() now just queues + kicks drainSerialRxQueue once
- drainSerialRxQueue calls writeByte on the head of the queue and only
shifts it off if writeByte returned true (avr8js accepted it)
- usart.onRxComplete is wired to drainSerialRxQueue so the next byte
ships as soon as the sketch's RX side actually consumed the previous
one — matches the cyclesPerChar pacing the real chip enforces
Same handler wired in both USART setup paths (the Uno/Nano branch and
the post-loadHex Mega/ATtiny branch). TX path (onByteTransmit +
emitUartTxFrame for the oscilloscope waveform) is unchanged.
The BoardKind type and the QEMU backend already supported
raspberry-pi-4 (Cortex-A72) and raspberry-pi-5 (Cortex-A76) by reusing
the Pi 3 arm64 image set, but the frontend had no way to actually
select either: the board picker, the canvas renderer, the serial
monitor, the oscilloscope channel list, and the editor toolbar all
hard-coded "raspberry-pi-3" as the only Pi entry. ComponentRegistry
even registered Pi 4 / Pi 5 metadata pointing at the velxio-raspberry-pi-3
custom-element tag — a placeholder that meant both boards rendered as
a Pi 3 in the picker thumbnail and on the canvas.
Add dedicated boards top-to-bottom:
* `RaspberryPi4Element.ts` / `RaspberryPi5Element.ts` — Velxio-style
schematic SVG (authored from scratch, not traced). Pi 4 is the
green PCB with BCM2711 SoC, 4× USB-A, USB-C power, dual µHDMI;
Pi 5 is the darker green PCB with BCM2712 + RP1 southbridge,
2.5 GbE, USB-C 5V/5A, PCIe FFC connector, dedicated power
button. Both carry a small "velxio" mark in the corner.
* `pi40PinHeader.ts` — shared `buildPi40PinHeader()` helper that
returns the 40-pin BCM layout. Every Pi from the 1B+ onwards
uses the same physical pin positions and same BCM GPIO
assignment, so Pi 3 / Pi 4 / Pi 5 elements all consume this
helper and example wires drawn against one model transfer to
the others without re-routing.
* React wrappers `RaspberryPi4.tsx` / `RaspberryPi5.tsx` render the
custom elements at absolute positions (mirrors how
RaspberryPi3.tsx handles the Pi 3 illustration).
* Wire-up across the editor surface:
- BoardOnCanvas: BOARD_SIZE entry + switch case.
- BoardPickerModal: description, icon, kinds list.
- ComponentPickerModal: thumbnails now instantiate the dedicated
custom element (was velxio-raspberry-pi-3 fallback).
- SerialMonitor / EditorToolbar: pill labels, icons, colours.
- Oscilloscope: GPIO channel list (28 BCM pins).
- SimulatorCanvas: remote-boards filter for run/stop sync.
- SPICE boardPinGroups: same 5V / 3V3 / GND as Pi 3.
- boardPinToNumber: accepts physical pin numbers ("1"-"40"),
BCM names ("GPIO14") and power labels for any Pi 3/4/5 id.
- ComponentRegistry: dedicated tagNames + per-board thumbnails
(green for Pi 4, darker green for Pi 5).
* EditorToolbar's Pi 3 special cases (Linux/Python compile path,
Run/Stop routing) now use `isPiBoardKind()` so Pi 4 and Pi 5
inherit the same behaviour automatically, and any future Pi
family member (Zero / 1 / 2) lands in the right code paths the
moment its backend boots.
QEMU backend was already wired (qemu_manager.py:71/82 + manifest entry
'raspberry-pi-3-virt' shared across arm64 Pis), so this commit makes
both boards selectable end-to-end without any backend follow-up.
Two intertwined bugs were leaving every ESP32 ePaper example broken
end-to-end. Only the 5.65" UC8159c panel surfaced the failure
audibly ("Busy Timeout!" repeating in serial), because its inverted
busy polarity caused the firmware to hang inside `_waitBusy()`. The
SSD168x ePaper examples APPEARED to run cleanly but never actually
rendered anything to the panel — the canvas stayed at the idle paper
colour because the same registration path was broken.
Root cause #1 — `setSensors` was a full REPLACE, not a merge.
`Esp32Bridge.setSensors(sensors)` did `this._pendingSensors =
sensors`. At `startBoard()` time the store iterates components,
resolves wires for any entry in `SENSOR_COMPONENT_MAP` (DHT22 /
HC-SR04 / I²C sensors) and calls `setSensors(...)` with that list.
ePaper components live in `PartSimulationRegistry` (not in the
sensor map) and are registered via `sendSensorAttach()` AT
COMPONENT-MOUNT TIME — well before `startBoard()` runs. Full-replace
semantics blew that registration away on every Run click, so the
worker never instantiated an `Ssd168xEpaperSlave` / `Uc8159cEpaperSlave`,
no SPI bytes were decoded, no frames were latched, and BUSY was
never driven.
Fix: upsert by `pin` so pre-existing registrations from
PartSimulationRegistry handlers are preserved alongside the
startBoard-resolved sensors. Confirmed via a WebSocket spy that the
`start_esp32` payload now carries the ePaper sensor entry.
Root cause #2 — BUSY polarity was hard-coded for SSD168x only.
Verified against upstream GxEPD2 source:
* SSD168x family — constructor passes `_busy_level = HIGH`
→ BUSY=HIGH means busy, LOW means ready.
* UC8159c family — constructor passes `_busy_level = LOW`
→ BUSY=LOW means busy, HIGH means ready.
The worker only drove BUSY after a frame flush (and at the wrong
polarity for UC8159c), so the firmware's first `_waitBusy()` inside
`_PowerOn()` / `_InitDisplay()` — which fires BEFORE any frame —
blocked for the full 25 s `_busy_timeout`.
Fix: read `controller_family` from the registration payload, pick the
per-family idle level, and (a) seed the pin to IDLE at registration so
the first `_waitBusy()` sees "ready" immediately, (b) use that
polarity (idle vs. busy) when pulsing on frame flush.
Verified on https://velxio.dev/example/epaper-5in65-7c-esp32-rainbow:
the serial timeline now reads `_InitDisplay reset : 1566` /
`_PowerOn : 148` / `_PowerOff : 183` / `frame done` (all sub-2 ms
busy-waits, no timeouts). Sensor registration confirmed via the
`start_esp32` payload carrying the `epaper-ssd168x` entry.
Closes the same gap as the AVR / RP2040 commits — qemu-lcgamboa's UART
transmits the byte over the WebSocket as a 'serial_output' event with no
GPIO toggle, so an oscilloscope on the ESP32 TX pin saw nothing while
real silicon would render the 8N1 frame at the configured baud rate.
Two changes inside Esp32Bridge:
* New `onPinChangeWithTime: (pin, state, timeMs) => void` callback
that hooks the oscilloscope at parity with AVRSimulator /
RP2040Simulator. The 'gpio_change' event now also flows through it
(timestamped with `performance.now()` — QEMU virtual time isn't
surfaced across the wire, but at 1× sim speed the wall-clock skew
is invisible on any practical sweep). This also fixes the broader
issue that ESP32 boards previously couldn't show ANY digital GPIO
activity on the scope.
* `emitUartTxFrame(byte, uart)` synthesizes start + 8 data LSB-first
+ stop transitions at `this.uartBaudRate` (default 115200) on the
UART0 TX pin, mapped per board variant:
esp32 / esp32-devkit-c-v4 / esp32-cam / wemos-lolin32-lite: GPIO1
esp32-s3 / xiao-esp32-s3 / arduino-nano-esp32: GPIO43
esp32-c3 / xiao-esp32-c3 / aitewinrobot-esp32c3-supermini: GPIO21
Backend doesn't expose the live baud rate so we default to 115200
(the Arduino default). Override path: bridge.uartBaudRate = N
once we surface Serial.begin's argument via a backend event.
Wire-up: `bridge.onPinChangeWithTime = getOscilloscopeCallback(boardId)`
inside the three Esp32Bridge construction sites in useSimulatorStore
(setBoardType, addBoard, changeBoard).
Same gap as the AVR USART: rp2040js's UART fires `onByte(value)` per
transmitted byte but never toggles the corresponding GPIO, so an
oscilloscope on GP0 (UART0 TX, default for Arduino-Pico's Serial1) sees
nothing during `Serial.print`. Real silicon drives the pin with the
full UART frame at the configured baud rate, and Velxio should match.
`emitUartTxFrame(uartIdx, byte)` derives:
* `txPin` via FUNCSEL inspection: walk GP0 / GP12 / GP16 / GP28 (the
four candidates for UART0 TX per RP2040 datasheet) and pick the
first whose `functionSelect == 2` (FUNCTION_UART). Same for UART1.
Fall back to GP0 / GP4 when nothing is mapped (firmware hasn't
called `Serial1.begin()` properly).
* `baudRate` and `bitsPerChar` directly from the UART peripheral
(rp2040js already exposes these as live getters).
* Time from the RP2040 IClock's `nanos` counter, matching the
existing `setupGpioListeners` path — UART waveforms therefore stack
consistently with PIO / SIO traces on the same scope.
Both `uart[0].onByte` and `uart[1].onByte` get hooked. The seed-idle-
HIGH baseline is pushed once per UART per simulation run; `stop()`
clears the flag so a re-run gets a fresh seed (matching how the scope
buffer is cleared on restart).
avr8js intercepts the transmitted byte at the UDR0 register and never
toggles the corresponding GPIO. Real ATmega328P / ATmega2560 hardware
drives PD1 / PE1 with a start bit, 8 data bits LSB-first, and a stop bit
at the configured baud rate the moment TXEN is set. An oscilloscope
probe on D1 therefore showed nothing in Velxio while the same probe in
the real world would resolve the UART frame.
Synthesize the frame from the inside of `onByteTransmit`:
* Read `usart.baudRate`, `usart.bitsPerChar`, `usart.parityEnabled`,
`usart.parityOdd`, `usart.stopBits` so unusual configurations stay
accurate (avr8js already exposes these as public getters).
* Build the bit list start + data(LSB first) + parity? + stopBit(s).
* For each transition vs. previous state (initial = idle HIGH), call
`onPinChangeWithTime(1, state, timeMs)` where
`timeMs = (cpu.cycles + i * cyclesPerBit) / 16_000`. Same
simulator-time clock the existing port-listener path uses, so the
scope draws the UART waveform cycle-accurately alongside other GPIO
activity.
Also hook `onConfigurationChange` to detect TXEN flipping 0→1 and seed
the scope baseline at idle HIGH; without that, the very first byte's
start bit transition would be invisible because the scope's pre-first-
sample default is LOW.
Both USART construction sites (initial setupSimulation around line 423,
re-init after stop around line 749) get the same hook.
Covered by `__tests__/avr-uart-tx-waveform.test.ts` (5 cases): idle seed,
byte with internal transitions, 0xFF edge case, TXEN-disabled no-op,
bit-period timing.
The PartSimulationRegistry handler for 'analog-joystick' was reading
`el.xValue` / `el.yValue` and computing `(value / 1023) * vcc` as if the
component were a potentiometer producing a raw 0..1023 reading. It is
not — `@wokwi/elements/analog-joystick-element` emits xValue / yValue as
a tri-state DIRECTION signal:
* xValue = -1 → "left" (mousedown on left zone)
* xValue = 0 → centered (mouseup snap-back)
* xValue = +1 → "right" (mousedown on right zone)
(same for yValue with up/down)
`(±1) / 1023 ≈ ±0.001`, so the ADC channel sat at ~0 V no matter which
directional zone was clicked. Center-button clicks worked because that
path is digital (`setPinState(SEL, …)`) and bypasses the analog map.
Fix:
* Tri-state → voltage with explicit map: -1 → 0V, 0 → Vcc/2, +1 → Vcc.
* Vcc was hardcoded to 5V for "not RP2040" — wrong for ESP32 / S3 /
Nano-ESP32 / etc., which all run at 3.3V like the Pi Pico. Detect
ESP32 via the BridgeShim's `setAdcVoltage` method and select 3.3V
for everything that isn't pure AVR.
Reported on /example/esp32-joystick where center-button-only worked but
directional zones did nothing. Verification via Chrome MCP after deploy.
Two related bugs that surfaced as "Vitest worker exited unexpectedly /
Timeout terminating forks worker" on the circuit-simulation-service
test file.
Bug 1 — tick() recursively re-schedules itself in its finally block.
After afterEach disposes the scheduler via __resetMixedModeScheduler(),
those re-scheduled ticks throw "call loadCircuit first", get caught by
the console.warn, and the finally schedules ANOTHER tick. Infinite
Promise loop survives until the worker OOMs.
Fix: add CircuitSimulationService.stop() that flips a `stopped` flag
short-circuiting tick() + handleMcuEdge(). The test harness now
tracks each started service in _activeServices and calls stop() in
afterEach alongside the existing unsubscribe sweep.
Bug 2 — when an MCU edge fires on a pin that's NOT wired into any net
(buildNetlist skips it because netLookup returns null), handleMcuEdge
sees hasSource=false, self-heals by queueing the edge + tick(). The
rebuild still doesn't emit the V-source (no wire), so tick.finally
replays the edge → self-heal again → tick again → infinite loop AT
RUNTIME, not just in tests. A user toggling a digital pin without a
wire freezes the whole circuit simulation.
Fix: in tick.finally's pendingMcuEdges replay loop, check whether
the rebuilt netlist now contains a V-source for each pending edge's
pin. If not, drop the edge silently — a future canvas tick triggered
by adding the wire will pick it up via the normal subscription path.
Also fix the "coalesces an edge with an in-flight full solve" test
fixture: simpleBoardWithBoard leaves pin 9 unwired, so V_uno_9 was
never emitted and the test was racing the (now-bounded) self-heal
rebuild. Replaced with an inline fixture wiring pin 9 → resistor →
GND, mirroring the wired fixture used by the alter+republish test
right above it.
Full vitest --shard 1/2 + 2/2 pass cleanly (1886 tests, 22-29s per
shard) with no worker-exit warnings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
ATtiny85 (AVRSimulator + collectPinStates + connectAnalogInputsToMcu + SimulatorCanvas + Attiny85Element + examples):
- Add attiny85AdcConfig with correct register addresses (ADMUX=0x27,
ADCSRA=0x26, ADCSRB=0x23, ADCL=0x24, ADCH=0x25, DIDR0=0x34, adcInterrupt=0x08).
Without this, analogRead() polled the wrong address forever and the
firmware hung on first ADC read.
- Add attiny85Timer0Config + instantiate AVRTimer so OVF fires at the
ATTinyCore-expected ~1.024 ms cadence. delay() advance is still blocked
on avr8js TIFR auto-clear semantics (separate upstream issue, see
ATTINY85_TIMER0_UPSTREAM_ISSUE.md in velxio-prod test plan).
- Map ATtiny85 ADC channels to PB-style pin names (PB5/PB2/PB4/PB3 -> 0..3)
in connectAnalogInputsToMcu so SPICE node voltages reach the right ADC
channel.
- Recognise /^PB\d+$/ in collectPinStates.pinNameToArduinoPin so wires
named "PB1" emit v_attiny85_pb1 V-source and the LED responds to MCU
writes. Previously every PB-wire returned -1 and SPICE saw no source.
- SimulatorCanvas: subscribe pin 1 (PB1) for the built-in LED on the
attiny85 board kind (Digispark convention), instead of falling through
to the pin-13 default.
- Attiny85Element: remove the hand-drawn "yellow LED" circle that was
floating above the chip. The bare DIP-8 has no on-board LED; examples
wire a real wokwi-led + resistor instead.
- examples.ts: add a real wokwi-led + 220 Ohm wokwi-resistor + wires to
attiny85-blink, and add missing series resistors to attiny85-button-led
and attiny85-ntc-sensor. attiny85-pwm-fade was already correct.
Custom-chip pipeline (CustomChipPart + simulatorBridges):
- Add a requestAnimationFrame loop that calls instance.tickTimers() every
frame in CustomChipPart. Chips that register vx_timer_create (e.g. an
i8080 stepping its core, or a sensor publishing samples) had timers
added to the queue but nothing fired them; tickTimers was dead code.
- Gate the ESP32 backend path with detectSimulatorKind(sim)==='esp32'.
The previous `typeof sim.registerSensor === 'function'` check matched
AVR and RP2040 simulators too (they expose registerSensor for I2C
sensor proxies), routing client-side chips to a non-existent ESP32
worker on those boards.
- Replace direct simulator.usart.writeByte calls in avrUartTx with a
JS-level FIFO + setTimeout(1ms) drainer. avr8js writeByte drops bytes
under burst load (a chip emitting print_string lost ~99% of bytes via
non-immediate, or kept only the last byte via immediate). The drainer
attempts one non-immediate write per tick and retries on RXC busy /
RXEN off. Added a guard for ATtiny85 (no USART -> would queue forever).
End-to-end verified: i8080-banner-streamer now prints the boot banner
followed by "uptime ticks: 0xNN" lines stepping every ~50 ms, executing
real Intel 8080 instructions inside the WASM chip.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three independent fixes uncovered during a systematic example-by-example
audit (plan/full_test_plan/):
1. DynamicComponent.handleMouseDown was calling e.stopPropagation()
unconditionally in the capture phase. That swallowed pointerdown
BEFORE wokwi-potentiometer / pushbutton / slide-switch / joystick
could see it, so the rotary knob would not rotate and buttons
wouldn't press even with a real OS mouse. Now we skip the swallow
when the click target is an inner wokwi-* element during a live
simulation, letting the wokwi component own its own pointerdown
while still allowing the canvas drag-to-rearrange flow on the
wrapper / non-interactive surface.
2. examples.ts uno-ntc (and pico-ntc) sketch had the NTC divider
formula inverted relative to both the SPICE mapper topology
(VCC -> R_NTC -> A1 -> R_pull -> GND, the standard module wiring)
and real wokwi-ntc-temperature-sensor modules. Moving the slider
to 60 C made the firmware print -3.42 C. Flipped the formula to
r = SERIES_R * (VCC - v) / v. Now slider 60 C -> Serial reports
60.12 C and A1 voltmeter shows 4.00 V.
3. componentToSpice.ts photoresistor mapper was only registered under
the bare key `photoresistor`, but example components use the
metadataId `photoresistor-sensor`. Added an alias so the LDR +
pull-down divider gets emitted for the real component instance.
All three reproduce visually in seconds; documented per-example in
plan/full_test_plan/examples/.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a new way to use the retro CPU chips: write your program in a
project file (.s / .asm / .hex / .bin), click Compile, click Run, and
the same chip emulates whatever you wrote. Same chip + different ROMs =
mini PC, calculator, LED demo, Kill-the-Bit game, etc.
SDK:
- velxio-chip.h gets two new host imports:
uint32_t vx_rom_size(void);
void vx_rom_read(uint32_t off, uint8_t* dst, uint32_t len);
CPU-emulator chips call these in chip_setup to pull their program out
of the host's romBytes property.
Frontend runtime:
- ChipRuntime accepts opts.romBytes (Uint8Array) and exposes the new
imports, copying bytes into chip memory on vx_rom_read.
- CustomChipPart pulls component.properties.romBytes (base64) and passes
it through.
- Component registry declares three new custom-chip properties:
romBytes (base64), programFile (matching project filename), and
programTarget (cpu name).
New programmable bundled chip:
- frontend/src/components/customChips/examples/intel/i8080-cpu.{c,chip.json}
Same clean-room 8080 emulator as i8080-repl/i8080-counter, but ROM is
loaded externally via vx_rom_*. Has 8 LEDs, 8 buttons, UART, 16 KB RAM,
32 KB of external ROM.
Backend:
- New /api/compile-rom endpoint and rom_compile service that turns
chip-program source into ROM bytes. 8080 ASM is assembled by the
in-tree two-pass assembler (moved to backend/app/services/asm8080.py).
Intel HEX records are parsed; raw .bin is passed through. Future targets
(z80, 8086, 4004) are scaffolded but not wired yet.
EditorToolbar:
- Compile button detects when the active file is .s/.asm/.hex/.bin and
routes to compile-rom instead of arduino-cli. The compiled bytes are
injected into every custom-chip on the canvas whose programFile property
matches the active filename (or is empty).
Example:
- /examples/i8080-killbits loads Dean McDaniel's 1975 Kill-the-Bit on
the programmable i8080-cpu chip. killbits.s is shipped as a project
file alongside sketch.ino; the user clicks Compile then Run and the
LED walks across 8 outputs, buttons kill it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The SignalRouter path has been in prod through Phase 2.5 / Phase 3.3
deploys without regressions, so the temporary fallback shipped in
commit 77bf897 can come out. Closes#101.
Backend (esp32_worker.py + esp32_lib_manager.py):
- Stop emitting `ledc_update` from the 0x5000 LEDC callback and from
the polling thread. Only `ledc_duty` (channel + duty_pct) and the
GPIO matrix routing events ship now.
- Drop the channel→gpio reverse-lookup that fed the legacy event.
Frontend:
- Delete `PinManager.broadcastPwm` and `PinManager.pwmListenerPinCount`.
- Delete `makeLedcUpdateHandler` + its `channelGpioMemo`.
- Delete `Esp32Bridge.onLedcUpdate` field + the `case 'ledc_update':`
message handler + the `LedcUpdate` type.
- Strip `this.onLedcUpdate = null` from 14 test mocks.
- Rewrite the `does not call broadcastPwm` guard in
esp32-multi-servo-gpio-matrix.test.ts to assert the method itself
no longer exists on PinManager (stronger regression guard than the
spy version, and doesn't need vi).
- Remove the `PinManager.broadcastPwm fallback` describe block from
esp32-servo-pot.test.ts — every test in it exercised the deleted
fallback path.
Docs (ESP32_EMULATION.md):
- Replace `ledc_update` rows in the events / implementation tables
with the SignalRouter trio (`ledc_duty`, `gpio_routing`,
`gpio_routing_clear`).
- Update the visual flow diagram + the "why this matters" paragraph
to past-tense the broadcastPwm bug.
Tests: 1886 frontend tests pass (the previously-failing
board-kinds-coverage test that needed the new Pi Zero/1/2 kinds is
also green). Backend unit suite: 279 pass, the 11 espidf_real_paths
prereq failures are environment-dependent (need arduino-cli libs in
the local shell) and unrelated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
End-to-end pipeline fixes uncovered while auditing the /examples gallery.
Each bug shipped past green unit + snapshot tests because none of those run
firmware + render LEDs. Added scripts/visual-led-test.mjs as a CDP-driven
visual harness that loads each example, runs the simulator, samples
`wokwi-led.brightness`, and asserts toggle / gradient / initial-off
invariants — exits non-zero on any regression.
Frontend simulator
- PinManager.updatePort: new optional ddrMask param. A pin is added to
`outputPins` only if the DDR bit is set, so the PORTx write that
enables INPUT_PULLUP (DDR=0, PORT=1) no longer falsely marks the pin
as MCU output. AVRSimulator now reads DDRB/C/D (0x24/0x27/0x2A on
Uno/Nano, 0x37 on ATtiny85, per-port table on Mega) and forwards it.
- AVRSimulator: pass DDR mask alongside every port-listener fire.
- BasicParts pushbutton{,-6mm}: seed pin HIGH in attachEvents so
`digitalRead()` returns HIGH while idle. avr8js doesn't auto-simulate
INPUT_PULLUP — without this the firmware reads LOW from boot and
thinks the button is permanently pressed (the "LED is always on,
pressing does nothing" UX bug).
- connectMcuEdgesToService: suppress synthetic digital edges on pins
with active PWM, AND subscribe to onPwmChange to re-tick the netlist
on duty changes. Fade-LED now produces a true gradient (6 distinct
brightness levels across a fade cycle) instead of a binary 0/full
toggle.
- CircuitSimulationService.handleMcuEdge: replace single-slot
pendingMcuEdge with a per-pin Map. Multiple pins toggling during the
same in-flight tick used to overwrite each other; now every pin's
most-recent edge replays after the tick. Fixes Traffic-Light RED→
YELLOW→GREEN sequencing.
- NetlistBuilder: new sanitizeSpiceId() helper replaces hyphens with
underscores in V-source names. ngspice's interactive `alter` command
treats `-` as an operator and silently no-ops on hyphenated source
names, so mid-simulation MCU pin transitions stopped propagating
after the first solve. MixedModeScheduler.onMcuPinChange and
CircuitSimulationService self-heal use the same sanitizer so names
stay consistent across emit/alter/lookup. Also added a regex-based
fallback in step 2 so any board pin matching `GND.\d+` canonicalises
to net "0" — ESP32-C3 dev kits expose up to 10 GND pins and the
per-board `groundPinNames` list missed several, leaving wires
floating instead of grounded.
- collectPinStates: emit V-sources only for pins in `outputPins`, not
every wired board pin. Leaves INPUT pins (analog sensors on A0,
pull-down dividers, etc.) free for the SPICE solver instead of being
shorted to 0 V by an ideal MCU V-source.
- start.ts: extended __spiceDebug to also expose outputPinsByBoard +
nodeVoltages + pinNetMapEntries for the visual harness.
- ESP32 / RP2040 / RISC-V / C3 simulators: pass `'mcu'` source flag to
triggerPinChange / setPinState so the new outputPins tracking fires
on those boards too (was AVR-only before).
- useSimulatorStore: stopBoard/resetBoard call pm.resetPinStates() so
outputPins clears between runs; Esp32Bridge.onPinChange passes the
`'mcu'` flag in all three places it's wired.
- types/board.ts: ATtiny85 FQBN `clock=internal16mhz` →
`clock=16pll` (ATTinyCore 1.5.2 renamed the option).
Backend
- esp-idf-template/main/CMakeLists.txt: skip the
`-DLED_BUILTIN=2` fallback for esp32c3 and esp32s3 targets. Both
variants already define LED_BUILTIN in pins_arduino.h via a
self-define macro (`#define LED_BUILTIN LED_BUILTIN` + `static const
uint8_t LED_BUILTIN = ...;`). Pre-defining the symbol from the
command line expanded the static-const declaration to
`static const uint8_t 2 = ...;` — a syntax error that broke every
ESP32-C3 / S3 build (`expected unqualified-id before numeric
constant`).
Examples
- examples.ts: bulk-fix 72 wire endpoints that referenced
`componentId: 'nano-rp2040'` / `'esp32-c3'` etc. (boards that don't
exist on the canvas). Replaced with `'arduino-uno'` (the canvas
board-id convention) and converted `D<n>` pin names to `GP<n>` for
Pico-style boards. Affects pico-blink, pico-i2c-scanner,
pico-i2c-rtc-read, pico-spi-loopback, c3-blink and others.
Tests
- scripts/visual-led-test.mjs: CDP-driven harness. Default suite covers
Blink (single-pin), Button (idle-OFF invariant — catches the
INPUT_PULLUP regression), Traffic-Light (multi-pin sequencing),
Fade-LED (PWM gradient — ≥3 distinct levels), RGB-LED (≥3 PWM pins
driven). Run via `npm --prefix frontend run test:visual` against a
Chrome on `:9222` + vite on `:5174` + backend on `:8001`.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closes the deferred Phase 3.3. Root-causes the Pi 2 "Attempted to
kill init" panic as `mount /dev/vda` failing with EINVAL — Debian
armmp does not have ext4 builtin (only fuseblk in /proc/filesystems).
- qemu_manager: PI_CONFIGS gains raspberry-pi-zero / -1 / -2 entries.
All three use the armmp armhf kernel + Cortex-A7 CPU + the mmio
virtio transport (arm-32 virt PCI fails -75 due to missing reg DT
property). Pi Zero / Pi 1 get the small 1-core / 512 MB profile;
Pi 2 gets 4-core / 1 GB. QEMU command builder branches on cfg.bus
for virtio-blk-pci vs virtio-blk-device (and serial likewise).
- manifest.json: new `raspberry-pi-armhf` image_set wiring three
assets (kernel + initramfs + zstd rootfs).
- Frontend BoardKind gains the three new kinds + an isPiBoardKind()
helper. Replaces the eight scattered `=== 'raspberry-pi-3' ||
=== 'raspberry-pi-4' || === 'raspberry-pi-5'` branches in
useSimulatorStore, Interconnect, loadExample, boardProtocols.
ComponentRegistry gets three new picker entries.
- board-kinds-coverage test: ACCEPTED_UNCOVERED gains the new kinds
(backend boards have no canvas examples).
The matching armhf build-pi-kernel.sh / build-pi-rootfs.sh changes
live in velxio-prod's scripts/ (private overlay) — the upstream
kernel build script only knows about arm64; armhf is built in the
private repo because the assets ship through the license endpoint.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bug reproduced via CDP probe across 5 Run/Stop cycles: cycle 1
worked (LED toggled), cycles 2-5 LED stayed dark — but exactly the
same code, same canvas, same circuit.
Tracing the live electrical store via __spiceDebug() showed:
cycle-1 after-run: branchCurrentCount=3 (pin13 V-source present)
cycle-2 after-run: branchCurrentCount=2 (pin13 V-source MISSING)
cycle-3..5 after-run: branchCurrentCount=2
The flow:
1. User clicks Run -> board.boards reference changes -> service ticks.
2. runSolve calls collectPinStates(board, ...) to snapshot output pins.
3. collectPinStates was emitting an entry ONLY when pinManager.getPinState(pin)
was currently TRUE. If the pin was LOW at that exact instant
(which is most of the time for a Blink sketch — 50% duty), no
pinStates entry, no V-source card in the netlist.
4. AVR runs, digitalWrite(13, HIGH) fires, handleMcuEdge calls
scheduler.onMcuPinChange -> solver.alterSource('V_arduino-uno_13', 5).
5. ngspice gets 'alter V_arduino-uno_13 dc 5' but that V-source
doesn't exist in the deck. Silent no-op. branchCurrents never
updates. LED stays dark forever.
The 'sometimes it works' impression came from cycle 1: the cold-boot
AVR happened to land on a HIGH state precisely when the tick fired,
so the V-source got emitted and every subsequent edge alter worked.
The other cycles caught the AVR in LOW.
Fix: always emit a digital PinSourceState — with v=0 when LOW, v=vcc
when HIGH — so the NetlistBuilder always produces V_<board>_<pin>
cards for every wired GPIO. alterSource then has a target to bind
to no matter what state the pin was in at solve time.
Verified live via CDP probe (_probe_blink.mjs in working tree):
pin13 toggles 0V<->5V at the Blink frequency
LED anode follows at 0V<->1.838V (matches manual calculation:
(5 - 1.84) / 220 = 14.4 mA forward current through the red LED)
branchCurrentCount = 3 stable across all cycles
Adds the public extension points the velxio-prod overlay uses to bind
real canvas-side I2C/SPI/UART models (BME280, future MCP23017, etc.)
to a running Pi guest's protocol shims:
- qemu_manager: set_pi_slave_handler(fn) / get_pi_slave_handler() for
pi_attach_slave + pi_detach_slave WebSocket messages. OSS image
leaves the hook unset so the messages are silently dropped.
- simulation route: parses the two new WS message types and forwards
them to the registered handler when present.
- RaspberryPi3Bridge: attachSlave(spec) / detachSlave(spec) frontend
side of the protocol.
- piSlaveScanner: at simulation start walks components + wires,
identifies I2C/SPI/UART peers wired to Pi protocol pins (40-pin
header physical-pin numbering), and emits one attach per
bus/address pair (deduped across SDA+SCL wires).
- RaspberryPiWorkspace: invokes the scanner once the bridge is open,
with retries to ride out the WS-still-connecting race.
- integration test: pi3_bme280_attach.py boots the Pi, pre-attaches a
BME280 via the slave handler, runs a host-side proto loop, runs
guest python smbus2.read_byte_data(0x76, 0xD0) and asserts the
console reads back CHIP=0x60.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The user-reported 'LED with proper series resistor shows 1.84 V at
the anode but never visually lights up' had its root cause here,
not in ngspice / not in the LED brightness handler / not in any
component id naming choice. ngspice parses 'V_led-builtin_sense'
just fine; the diode conducts and the node voltage is exactly what
you'd compute by hand.
What breaks is the JS regex that scans the emitted netlist to
collect voltage-source names so CircuitSimulationService can ask
the scheduler to read their branch-current vectors:
const m = card.match(/^([Vv][_\w]*)\s/);
[_\w]* doesn't accept '-'. For a card 'V_led-builtin_sense …' the
capture is 'V_led' (truncated at the hyphen). The voltageSources
array gets the wrong name; CircuitSimulationService pushes
'i(v_led)' into extraVectorsOfInterest; ngspice has no such vector
so the readVec promise rejects silently; branchCurrents['v_led-builtin_sense']
is never populated; the LED handler in BasicParts.ts sees raw =
undefined, the SPICE-memo path is skipped, and the digital fallback
runs but only sets the LED on when the PinResolver classifies the
anode as a direct GPIO connection (which it does NOT when an
intermediate resistor is in series). Dark LED.
Fix is adding '-' to the character class. One character. All five
existing examples I previously 'fixed' by just adding a series
resistor will now light up correctly without renaming any of their
component ids. Same for any saved user project with hyphenated ids
and for the auto-generated picker ids that used to contain hyphens.
The earlier underscore-id workarounds (default canvas + picker
template) stay in place as defense in depth — they don't break
anything and they keep the SPICE side clear of avoidable special
characters.
Backend: extract per-board config into a PI_CONFIGS dict keyed by
board_type. Pi 3/4/5 share the same arm64 image set (kernel +
initramfs + rootfs) and differ only in QEMU -cpu and -m:
raspberry-pi-3 → cortex-a53 + 1G (BCM2837, ARMv8 64-bit)
raspberry-pi-4 → cortex-a72 + 2G (BCM2711, ARMv8 64-bit)
raspberry-pi-5 → cortex-a76 + 2G (BCM2712, ARMv8 64-bit)
PiInstance now carries board_type so the per-board lookup happens
once at start_instance time. Unknown board_type falls back to
DEFAULT_PI_BOARD ('raspberry-pi-3') instead of erroring out (for
back-compat with older clients).
Pre-warm hook walks every unique image_set in PI_CONFIGS so the
provider only downloads each set once even when several Pi models
are registered.
Frontend:
- BoardKind union gains 'raspberry-pi-4' and 'raspberry-pi-5'.
- BOARD_KIND_LABELS + BOARD_KIND_FQBN entries for both new boards
(FQBN null since they use the Pi VFS + Python toolchain like Pi 3).
- ComponentRegistry inserts two new component metadata entries
cloning the Pi 3 board art with different thumbnail colours.
Tag name reused so the same velxio-raspberry-pi-3 web element
draws the board on the canvas — the 40-pin GPIO layout is
identical across Pi 3/4/5.
- boardProtocols.ts: Pi 3/4/5 share the BCM physical→GPIO table
(PI3_BCM) since the 40-pin header layout is identical.
- loadExample.ts: where 'raspberry-pi-3' is special-cased (VFS
ingest, .cpp vs .ino filename), now matches Pi 3/4/5 alike.
- Interconnect.isPi3Bridge() recognises all three Pi family members
so Arduino↔Pi serial routing keeps working.
- RaspberryPi3Bridge constructor gained a boardKind parameter
defaulting to 'raspberry-pi-3'. The WebSocket 'start_pi' message
now ships the actual board kind so the backend knows which
PI_CONFIGS entry to use.
- useSimulatorStore.addBoard wires bridge construction for all
three Pi family members.
Pi Zero/Pi 1/Pi 2 (armhf) come in Phase 3.3 — separate kernel
package + armhf rootfs build, no change here.
Smoke-tested inside the prod container:
Pi 4 (cortex-a72) → reached agetty login on hvc0
Pi 5 (cortex-a76) → reached agetty login on hvc0
Both show 'aarch64' in uname -m.
Adds a new picker entry 'Regulated Power Supply' under the analog
category. Conceptually fills the gap between wokwi-battery (fixed
DC) and wokwi-signal-generator (waveform focus): user chooses
voltage + mode (dc / ac) + currentLimit, no need to think about
battery chemistry or signal amplitudes.
Properties:
mode: 'dc' | 'ac' (default 'dc')
voltage: V (default 5)
frequency: Hz (default 50, only for AC)
currentLimit: A (default 1)
Design notes:
- No new Web Component. The tagName piggy-backs on
wokwi-signal-generator so the canvas renders the familiar
bench-instrument chrome — saves shipping a second 100+ LOC
Web Component for an identical 2-pin shape.
- SPICE: ideal V-source + ESR sized so a near-short reads
I ≈ 1.5·limit. ngspice has no native foldback so the limit
is a circuitVerifier rule, not a hard SPICE constraint.
- circuitVerifier: extends sourceComponents regex to include
power-supply AND honors the per-instance currentLimit
property as the threshold. Real bench supplies behave this
way — a 100mA-limited supply trips at 100mA, a 5A supply
tolerates 5A before flagging. The error code is
'source-overload' (not 'short-circuit') so the modal copy
matches what the user just configured.
The board GND / VCC pins of Arduino / ESP32 / etc. already act
as voltage sources via BOARD_PIN_GROUPS canonicalisation (the
NetlistBuilder maps wires to the right rail). So the user's
companion request — 'board pins should already work' — is the
existing behaviour; this commit only adds the standalone bench
supply for boardless circuits or for testing with a different
voltage.
Two related correctness fixes that make the simulator's realism
match what users actually see.
1. circuitVerifier was running pre-flight against the IDLE circuit
(every pin LOW). A Blink sketch is going to write pin 13 HIGH
eventually — at which point a missing series resistor produces a
~500 mA spike through the diode. But because pre-flight ran with
pin 13 LOW the led-overcurrent rule never fired, and the user
sailed through Run only to see the LED stay mysteriously dark on
the canvas.
The verifier now forces every digital pin connected to a load to
HIGH = vcc, the worst case any well-defined sketch will eventually
impose. The existing rules (led-overcurrent, resistor-overpower,
short-circuit) now fire correctly and the existing
CircuitVerificationModal blocks Run until the user adds a proper
current limiter or chooses Run Anyway.
Pins that are inputs-only (a pull-up + button) get over-driven
here too, but the rules tolerate that — a pull-up at 5 V draws
~0.5 mA, well below all thresholds. A circuit that would actually
fault under HIGH is flagged.
2. LED simulator was crashing visually on non-finite ngspice branch
currents. A degenerate diode (no series R) makes ngspice return
NaN, which fell through 'raw !== undefined && current > 1e-6' as
false and never triggered the digital fallback. Now we check
Number.isFinite(raw) before trusting it — non-finite returns
route to the digital fallback so the LED at least lights visually
when its driver pin is HIGH (the user still sees the verifier
warning that the real-world circuit is wrong, but Run Anyway is
not a black screen).
User report: on the solar-tracker project (5218f9e3) only one servo
moved and the log showed `ch=0 duty=X% gpio=12` (wrong — servoPan was
attached to GPIO 13) and `ch=1 ... gpio=-1` (servoTilt's channel
never resolved).
Root cause traced through the GPIO Matrix dump: the firmware does
exactly what the Arduino-ESP32 Servo library says — `ledcAttachPin(
13, 0)` writes signal 71 (LEDC_HS_SIG_OUT0) into `gpio_out_sel[13]`,
and `ledcAttachPin(12, 1)` writes signal 72 (LEDC_HS_SIG_OUT1) into
`gpio_out_sel[12]`. Per the ESP32 Technical Reference Manual section
4.11, Table 4-3:
71 .. 78 → LEDC HS channels 0..7
79 .. 86 → LEDC LS channels 0..7
The legacy worker code at esp32_worker.py:426 used the off-by-one
range `72 <= signal <= 87` with `ledc_ch = signal - 72`. The mistake
masked itself for single-servo projects because the 0x5000 duty
callback's channel index was internally consistent with the bogus
math, so the duty STILL reached the correctly-routed pin (just
labelled wrong). The new SignalRouter unit tests caught the
discrepancy the moment two servos drove distinct channels: signal
71 (HS_CH0, gpio 13) was REJECTED by the off-by-one filter and
signal 72 (HS_CH1, gpio 12) was misclassified as channel 0.
When I ported the legacy range into `esp32_signals.SIG_LEDC_HS_CH0_OUT_IDX`
the bug came along for the ride. Fix both modules:
* `backend/app/services/esp32_signals.py`: HS 71-78, LS 79-86.
* `frontend/src/simulation/esp32-signals.ts`: mirror.
* tests updated; 20 backend + 23 frontend pass.
After deploy the user's two servos will resolve to their declared
pins:
ch=0 duty=X% gpio=13 (servoPan, was wrongly emitting gpio=12)
ch=1 duty=X% gpio=12 (servoTilt, was wrongly emitting gpio=-1)
This is also why the multi-servo blink "patch" in commit 77bf897
appeared to help: with both pins ALIASED to the same channel via
the off-by-one, the broadcast fallback was the only thing producing
ANY movement on the second servo at all.
Replaces the per-peripheral ad-hoc `_ledc_gpio_map` cache with a
proper signal-routing abstraction that mirrors the ESP32 SoC's
IO_MUX + GPIO Matrix exactly. Same idea as real silicon: signal
sources (LEDC channels, RMT, MCPWM, ...) → 40-entry routing table
→ GPIO pins.
Motivation (from user bug report in
velxio.dev/project/5218f9e3-136d-43b3-bba1-6cebde21e1a4): two
ESP32 servos on a solar-tracker visibly oscillated between two
positions instead of moving smoothly when the user changed LDR
sliders. Commit 77bf897 patched it (per-channel gpio memo +
broadcast guard) but the user requested a proper hardware-fidel
architecture, not patches.
Backend:
* `app/services/signal_router.py` — SignalRouter class. Forward
index (gpio → signal_id) + reverse index (signal_id → set of
gpios). `replace_snapshot()` returns the diff for the polling-
fallback path; future C plugin hook becomes a push without
touching this code.
* `app/services/esp32_signals.py` — Signal id constants from
ESP32 TRM (LEDC HS 72-79, LS 80-87) + `ledc_signal_for_channel()`
helper.
* `app/services/esp32_worker.py` — `_ledc_gpio_map` is gone;
`_refresh_ledc_gpio_map` replaced by `_refresh_signal_routing`
which emits `gpio_routing {gpio, signal_id}` events on diff.
The 0x5000 LEDC callback and the LEDC poll thread now emit
`ledc_duty {channel, duty_pct}` (canonical, no gpio) alongside
the legacy `ledc_update {channel, duty, gpio}` for back-compat
during rollout.
Frontend:
* `simulation/SignalRouter.ts` — 1-to-1 TS mirror of the Python
class. Same forward + reverse index; same `pinsForSignal` /
`updateRouting` / `clearRouting` API.
* `simulation/esp32-signals.ts` — Signal id constants, mirror
of the Python module.
* `simulation/Esp32Bridge.ts` — new `onLedcDuty`, `onGpioRouting`,
`onGpioRoutingClear` callbacks; handlers for the new event types.
* `store/useSimulatorStore.ts` — `makeLedcDutyHandler` looks up
pins via `router.pinsForSignal(ledcSignalForChannel(channel))`
and dispatches per pin. `makeGpioRoutingHandler` /
`makeGpioRoutingClearHandler` keep the mirror in sync. Per-board
`signalRouterMap` parallels `pinManagerMap` in lifecycle.
`makeLedcUpdateHandler` (and its memo workaround from 77bf897)
stays wired for back-compat during rollout; removed in a
follow-up commit once prod is verified stable on the new path.
Tests:
* `test/backend/unit/test_signal_router.py` (20 tests) covers
update/clear semantics, idempotency, multi-pin routing,
snapshot diff, channel↔signal-id helpers, and the multi-servo
regression scenario.
* `frontend/src/__tests__/SignalRouter.test.ts` (17 tests) is the
mirror — same scenarios on the TS side.
* `frontend/src/__tests__/esp32-multi-servo-gpio-matrix.test.ts`
(6 tests) drives the end-to-end SignalRouter handler pipeline,
asserts that two servos on GPIO 13/12 via LEDC channels 0/1
move independently (no mirroring), that re-routing carries
cleanly, and — critically — that `PinManager.broadcastPwm` is
never called.
Totals: +700 LOC, 1876 frontend tests pass (was 1853), 278 backend
unit tests pass (was 259).
Docs: ESP32_EMULATION.md §9.2 rewritten with the new architecture
diagram + a runbook for adding future peripherals through the
SignalRouter.
The C plugin hook in qemu-lcgamboa that would push gpio_out_sel
writes synchronously (eliminating the polling race window entirely)
is the next step — kept as a follow-up because the polling-fallback
path here already resolves the routing before each duty event
fires, so the bug is fixed end-to-end. The plugin work removes the
race condition fundamentally.
User-reported bug (project 5218f9e3, solar-tracker with 2× ESP32
servos): when LDR values change the servos visibly oscillate between
two positions instead of moving smoothly.
Root cause in useSimulatorStore.makeLedcUpdateHandler. When the
backend emits a ledc_update with gpio=-1 (the per-channel gpio_out_sel
map isn't populated yet on the very first duty change after attach),
the handler called PinManager.broadcastPwm(duty). broadcastPwm fans
the same duty out to ALL registered PWM consumers — for a project
with two servos both subscribed in the 0.01-0.20 duty range, each
broadcast made BOTH servos mirror whichever channel was last
written. Result: servoPan→91° and servoTilt→87° alternating writes
would visibly snap both servos to 87°, then 91°, then 87°…
Two-part fix:
1. PinManager grows `pwmListenerPinCount()` — number of distinct
pins with at least one PWM consumer registered.
2. makeLedcUpdateHandler now keeps a per-board memo of
{ledc_channel → last-known-good-gpio}. On a gpio=-1 update:
- if the channel has a remembered gpio, route there;
- else, only broadcast when there's at most ONE consumer
(single-LED / single-servo setups still work);
- otherwise drop the update — the backend's GPIO out_sel poll
repopulates the map within a few ms and the next ledc_update
arrives with a real gpio.
The drop is correct because the same LEDC channel keeps emitting
duty changes every Servo.write() call (~33 Hz at 30 ms loop delay),
so missing one transient gpio=-1 frame is invisible.
Tests: 1853 pass. The existing esp32-servo-pot tests already cover
the gpio>=0 happy path; the new memo path is exercised indirectly
through that handler.
Clicking a second photoresistor (or any second sensor of the same
metadataId) showed the previously-clicked sensor's slider value because
the panel was reused across clicks and its useState only ran once. The
mount useEffect also unconditionally dispatched config defaults, which
would have wiped any prior customisation if we naively remounted.
Three changes:
- SensorUpdateRegistry caches the last-dispatched values per componentId
(and clears them on unregister) so the panel has a place to read from.
- SensorControlPanel hydrates from that cache on mount, falling back to
config defaults only when the sensor has never been touched. The
default-dispatch useEffect skips when cached values already exist.
- SimulatorCanvas keys the panel on sensorControlComponentId, forcing a
fresh mount when the user switches sensors — without that, hydration
wouldn't run on subsequent opens.
deploy.sh's vitest + pytest output was polluted with three benign
but loud warnings that buried real signal:
1. AVRSimulator.start() unconditionally read `window.__spiceDebug`.
In node-side vitest runs `window` is undefined → ReferenceError
→ console.warn('[spice] debug dump failed', e). Logged once per
AVR test. Guarded with `typeof window !== 'undefined'`; in
production the browser path is unchanged.
2. pinPositionCalculator.calculatePinPosition() warned every time
document.getElementById returned null. In node-side tests there
is no real DOM and every wire-related test triggers the warning
for every component. Skip the console.warn when
import.meta.env.MODE === 'test' (vitest sets MODE=test); the
function still returns null and production retains the
actionable warning for unmounted components.
3. test_esp32_wifi_args.py::test_start_instance_accepts_wifi_params
mocked asyncio.create_task with no side_effect, so the coroutine
from self._boot(...) leaked and triggered a "coroutine never
awaited" RuntimeWarning. Mock now closes the coroutine.
After fixes:
frontend tests: 0 spice/pinPositionCalculator stderr lines
backend tests: 259 passed, 15 skipped, 1 warning (starlette
third-party python_multipart deprecation —
not ours, fixed when starlette updates).
rp2040js runs at ~50% real time, so a TFT frame burst (fillRect sky +
fillRect floor + many drawFastVLine for walls + HUD) often takes longer
than 16 ms to drain through the SPI pipeline. Painting on every rAF
captured mid-burst snapshots that the next sky fill immediately
clobbered, so the canvas only ever showed the last few pixels written
before each tick — most visibly the raycaster examples rendering 2-3
wall columns instead of 160.
Strategy: each SPI pixel write resets a 16 ms idle timer. We paint only
after that period of silence (a real frame boundary), with a 100 ms
hard cap so continuous-write sketches still update.
Also adds test/pico_doom_demo/raycaster-perf.mjs — a puppeteer-based
profiler that reports CPU step rate, SPI throughput, per-pixel cost,
and paint rate. Run with the dev backend + frontend up:
node test/pico_doom_demo/raycaster-perf.mjs
After the fix the Doom raycaster paints at the sketch's natural 10 FPS
with full frames (was 29 fps of mid-burst snapshots).
J: vitest.config.ts split out from inline `test:` block in
vite.config.ts. CI workflows can now reference vitest.config.ts
directly; test settings no longer pulled into vite build deps.
Settings: testTimeout 30s, hookTimeout 30s, forks pool with
singleFork:false (per-file worker isolation for the
NgSpiceNodeAdapter singleton), coverage excludes
`src/simulation/spice/wasm/**` (irrelevant lcov bytes).
C: components-metadata-integrity.test.ts — 11 sub-tests, all live
checks against the real `public/components-metadata.json` + every
examples-*.ts source-of-truth + the live PartSimulationRegistry:
• Shape per entry: id / tagName / name / category / pinCount
• IDs unique
• tagName matches wokwi/velxio prefix
• Thumbnail is an SVG
• properties[] + defaultValues{} shape
• Every metadataId referenced from gallery exists in metadata
(instr-* filtered — instruments aren't canvas-rendered)
• PartSimulationRegistry registrations cross-checked vs metadata
(informational — some runtime-only parts have no metadata entry
by design: custom-chip, raspberry-pi-3, 74hc595 internals)
• Orphan-entries report: surfaces metadata entries no example or
part-sim uses (informational, doesn't fail)
The orphan report flags 58 dead-ish metadata entries (preset
variants like resistor-220, individual epaper sizes, etc.) for
later cleanup conversation. Not an error.
`PartSimulationRegistry.listRegisteredParts()` exposed for the test
to enumerate without duplicating the list.
1472 tests pass (was 1461 — +11 new metadata sub-tests).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
#10 — ESP32 ADC clipping warning: `pushEsp32Waveforms` now counts
how many samples land outside the 0-3.3 V ADC range. If > 10% of a
pin's waveform clips, console.warn once per pin with the observed
range. Helps diagnose "my analog read is stuck at 4095" from
canvases without a divider / clamp.
#11 — PinManager subscriptions scoped to circuit pins. Previously
`connectMcuEdgesToService.subscribeBoard` attached listeners to all
64 Arduino pins per board, justified as "free if unused". True
for AVR; spammy for ESP32 with 40+ GPIOs × multi-board setups
(thousands of dead listeners). Now reads from useElectricalStore's
pinNetMap and only subscribes to pins the circuit references.
Re-subscribes when pinNetMap changes (new wire added/removed).
#16 — `__spiceDebug()` window helper. Restored after the legacy
subscribeToStore deletion in Phase 1c. Logs analysis mode,
voltage count, pin-net-map sample, last-solve ms — useful for
DevTools investigation of "why isn't my circuit solving?" reports.
1461 tests pass.
#8 (FQP27P06 → VDMOS) deferred — model not in the local LTSpice
library; requires external sourcing.
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`runNetlist` was guessing what vectors to read by regex-matching
`V*/R*/L*/C*/D*/Q*/M*` lines in the netlist string. Fragile —
missed extra-card nets, custom prefixes, subckt-internal nets.
This commit gives the Worker adapter the same enumeration surface
the Node adapter already had:
• New `listVectors` message type in the worker, calling
`ngSpice_AllVecs(curPlot)` and decoding the NULL-terminated
char** result. Case-preserved (getVecInfo lookups are
case-sensitive for source-current vectors).
• `NgSpiceInteractive.listVectors()` exposes it to the adapter.
• `NgSpiceWorkerAdapter.listCurrentVectors()` + the higher-level
`readAllCurrentVectors()` — single-call enumerate + read.
• `runNetlist.ts` simplified: ONE solve, then read every vector
via the adapter. No more regex parsing. No more guess-set.
`readAllCurrentVectors` exists on both adapters now with identical
shape — domain code can swap them freely.
1461 tests pass. Both `examples-gallery-smoke` (68 examples) and
`circuit-verifier` (8 pre-flight checks) green.
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#3: `start.ts` now kicks `scheduler.start()` (lazy-boot the WASM
engine) right when the editor mounts. Without this, the first
solve — typically the user's first canvas edit — paid 2-5 s of
WASM init while the canvas appeared frozen. Now the Worker boots
while the user looks at the empty canvas; by the time they wire
anything, the engine is warm.
#5: deleted three unimported dead files that pre-existing tsc -b
strict errors referenced. Nothing in the live codebase imports
`wireOffsetCalculator`, `wirePathGenerator`, or `wireSegments` —
they were left behind by an earlier wire-routing refactor.
Removing them clears 10+ tsc errors plus the `WireControlPoint`
phantom type they relied on.
Also cleaned up an unused import in
`capacitor-charge-transient.test.ts` (leftover from F2).
1461 tests pass, vite build clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
David Montero Crespo