It would be nice to play with these simulators if they could do more then the basics. I’m going to complanabit here. It would of been nice if you could use more then 1 mcu. It would also would of been really really cool if it had the ESP8266 in it. Me I like to use more then one processor in a project because they are so so cheep now.

A lot of the time I don’t even use the WiFi on the ESP8266 so I can crank the clock right up there. At least there are some out there. And I hate any full demo for 30 days. Or no saving. And I want it all (FREE)!

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Just kidding.:-}. Looks like you found a few problems: Font size issue and tiny pot is weird, would be nice to know your graphic configuration. Looks like you see components too small, perhaps very high dpi screen?

I will try to reproduce it and find a solution. Debugging and simulating at same time not working very well is not strange, debugger is a new feature, is useful for simple cases and is a good practice debug just parts of the code at a time to see if it is working as expected, but crashing should be solved in any case. I’m curious about non-debugging crash, i cannot make it crash easily even if i try hard. If you find a case please report it. Also: “Sometimes the program forgets to make the cross cursor”. Cannot reproduce this issue. About speed, you choosed probably the worst case: microcontroller + bjt in emitter follower configuration.

Op-amp as voltage follower for example would be much faster, probably real time. You could also improve speed in this case by changing some simulation settings. Best way to get bugs solved is reporting them: Saving state of plotter an serial monitor is a good idea, i will add to feature request. Win7 activator 50. Anyway very complete review, and very useful to see what problems users find. You already documented some of the problems in your article and it has been very useful. Thanks to your “hard case” i found a big issue about debugging and simulating at same time.

I’m working on it right now. I also have to address the screen issue. It’s very time consuming locating exactly where some crashes happen, report and then maybe answer questions from developers and so on. So i appreciate a lot when someone takes the effort to do it and i understand that there is not many people willing or having the time to do so. But this is the only way that a project like this can reach a good level of usability. I think that the best aproach to program the Arduino is to use a Virtual Serial Port. I don’t know if is possible to the simulator create its own COM port to the Arduino IDE connect, but if is not, using COM0COM can solve it.

SimulIDE already have a way to open a COM port, but I didn’t tested if is possible to connect to a virtual COM bridge, upload the bootloader firmware to the Arduino and use Arduino IDE to program and open Serial Monitor (SimulIDE’s serial monitor has few options and lack for a configuration to send CR e LF). The advantage of embedded IDE is debugging, but with so many bugs, it might not be worth the effort. I use a software called “PICSimLab”, that is very simple. It has some PIC development boards and the Arduino UNO. There are just a few peripheral, and you can’t assembly the circuit like SimulIDE. The main advantage, in my opinion, is the possibility to program the Arduino using Arduino IDE and the COM0COM virtual port.

I keep following closely the development of both softwares, they are great freeware options and are evolving at full speed.