Ephemeral Simulated Environments for Testing OpenTitan

[jpthurman]

Description

Hi OpenTitan Team,

We met some of the colleagues who work on Open Titan at the Open Source Summit in Dublin and discussed possible utility for ephemeral simulated test environments for embedded systems. We developed a Proof of Concept that is working well and wanted to share it with you.

In a fork of Open Titan we set up a GHA workflow that uses Uffizzi to create, update, delete an ephemeral simulated test environment on every PR. The environment is using the dependencies within Open Titan dockerfile to build the software and hardware.

An example environment is running on Uffizzi Cloud and is accessible via https here.

The full suite of on-device and on-host tests passed on the Uffizzi Environment

Here's a snapshot:

We'll keep the environment up for a few days (not too long because it's a bit costly) if you want to try it yourself. Please let us know if this would be useful to Open Titan and in general if it's useful to embedded systems.

@marnovandermaas
@ShrutiC-git

[jpthurman]

@marnovandermaas any feedback?

[marnovandermaas]

Hi @jpthurman, I had sent you an email response earlier but I can respond here as well. I hope you found it useful setting up an embedded project on your Uffizzi product. Thank you for sharing your results with us.

[jpthurman]

Thanks @marnovandermaas - sorry I missed your email. I hope you've found this useful