[NXP: MIMXRT1064-EVK] Board Enablement

[alieissa-commits]

[NXP: MIMXRT1064-EVK] Board Enablement

Overview

This PR introduces full board enablement and demonstration applications for the NXP i.MX RT1064-EVK evaluation board (ARM Cortex-M7 @ 600 MHz) running Eclipse ThreadX RTOS and the NetX Duo TCP/IP stack.

The port is designed around a decoupled static Board Support Package (board_bsp) that isolates low-level hardware initializations (system clocks, MPU, caches, pin muxing, Ethernet MAC/PHY descriptors, and on-chip hardware TRNG) from application logic.

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Key Highlights & Features

1. Modular Multi-Demo Architecture:

   • threadx_basic: Simple multi-threading, kernel software timers, and User LED heartbeat blinking.
   • netx_echo: Dual-node network verification testing ARP, ICMP Ping, UDP Echo, and TCP Echo over an emulated virtual switch.
   • netx_trng_console: True Random Number Generator hardware entropy driver paired with a multi-client Telnet management shell. Supports optional -Seed <number> parameter for reproducible hardware entropy verification.
   • Independent build artifacts generated per demo under build/app/demos/<demo_name>/.

2. Simulation & Automated CI/CD:

   • Complete Antmicro Renode platform description and simulation scripts.
   • Headless test runners (test_headless.ps1 and test_headless.sh) for deterministic regression testing without a display.

3. Cross-Platform Tooling:

   • Works on Windows and Linux.
   • Automatic cross-compiler detection.

4. Standards & Licensing Compliance:

   • Compliant with Eclipse ThreadX coding standards and SPDX MIT licensing.
   • NOTICE.md documenting upstream NXP MCUXpresso SDK (BSD 3-Clause) and official Arm CMSIS-Core (Apache-2.0).

[alieissa-commits]

For some reason the CI Renode emulation test fails for NXP: MIMXRT1064-EVK although it works fine on my machine using git bash. I will look into it tomorrow.