The PICSimLab_NOGUI version is to be used on a terminal and must be used with the remote control interface.

v0.8.12 (2023-01-20)

New

• Support to PIC16F886 and PIC18F28K80 added to Breadboard board. [lcgamboa]

• Support to use UART pins with qemu ESP32 and STM32 added. [lcgamboa]

• Support to use Virtual Terminal part with rcontrol interface. [lcgamboa]

• New part ADXL345 Accelerometer. [lcgamboa]

• Support to SPI in bmp280 sensor added. [lcgamboa]

• Support to SPI and I2C in qemu-stm32 added. [lcgamboa]

• Support to PIC18F4580 on boards Breadboard, McLab2 and PICGenios added. [lcgamboa]

• New boards Arduino Mega and Arduino Nano added. [lcgamboa]

• Support to run multiple instances of PICSimLab. [lcgamboa]

• Support for logging and recovering from errors. [lcgamboa]

• Support to ESP32 Iomux on board DevKitC. [lcgamboa]

• Added support to I2C and SPI to ESP32 DevKitC board. [lcgamboa]

• Esp32 DevKitC board support to ADC added. [lcgamboa]

Changes

• Change VCD Dump part to only show used channels in pulseview/gtkwave. [lcgamboa]

• Add instance numbers to windows title bars. [lcgamboa]

• Step motor part now show steps and turns. [lcgamboa]

Fix

• Fix Virtual terminal and increase internal timers precision. [lcgamboa]

• Fix window redraw when used in Wayland (Linux) [lcgamboa]

• Add support to Windows serial ports greater than COM9 in qemu backend simulator. [lcgamboa]

• PICGenious board interference of keys bounce on keyboard activation removed. [lcgamboa]

The PICSimLab_NOGUI version is to be used on a terminal and must be used with the remote control interface.

v0.8.11 (2022-08-02)

New

• New parts BMP180 and BMP280 I2C pressure and temperature sensors. [lcgamboa]

• New part DS18B20 1-wire temperature sensor. [lcgamboa]

• New parts DHT22 and DHT11 humidity and temperature sensors. [lcgamboa]

• New board ESP32-DevKitC. [lcgamboa]

• Support to disable bounce effect in switches and push buttons parts. [lcgamboa]

• Part IO MM74C922 keyboard controller added. [lcgamboa]

Changes

• Boards Blue Pill, DevKitC, gpboard and STM32 H103 moved from experimental to stable version. [lcgamboa]

• PQDB, ESP32-DevKitC, Blue Pill and STM32 H103 boards picture updated. [lcgamboa]

Fix

• Fix qemu configuration window of board ESP32 DEvKitC. [lcgamboa]

• Fix ESP32 DevKitC to work on windows. [lcgamboa]

• Fix board PICGenios dip switches functions. [lcgamboa]

The experimental version has initial (incomplete) support to other microcontrollers using picsim, simavr, qemu-stm32, uCsim and gpsim as backend simulator and some new boards.

The PICSimLab_NOGUI version is to be used on a terminal and must be used with the remote control interface.

v0.8.10 (2022-04-09)

New

• Bluepill board updated to use qemu-stm32 version 6.2.50. [fariouche]

• Option to use single 7 Segment Display part. [lcgamboa]

• New part IO 74xx573 octal latch. [lcgamboa]

• New Text Box spare part. [lcgamboa]

• Support to change On position in switches parts and color status indication. [lcgamboa]

• Support to change color of LEDs part (Red, Green, Blue, Yellow and White) [lcgamboa]

• Support to use +3V3 instead only +5V in some boards. [lcgamboa]

• New RGB LED WS2812B part added. [lcgamboa]

• Bounce effect added to Switches part and boards McLab1, McLab2, X and PICGenios. [lcgamboa]

• LCD HD44780 support to read in 4bits mode. [lcgamboa]

• Support to RAM data write/read breakpoints for PIC16F/18F added. [lcgamboa]

• Timer peripheral added to RIPES board. [lcgamboa]

• Support to automatic save the last open workspace file (.pzw) [lcgamboa]

• New spare part LDR. [lcgamboa]

• Support to PIC16F887 added to boards Breadboard, McLab2 and PICGenios. [lcgamboa]

• New board RemoteTCP with Ripes support added. [lcgamboa]

• New part DS1621 I2C temperature sensor. [lcgamboa]

• Support to add combined part LCD_hd44780 with PCF8574 I2C expander. [lcgamboa]

• Support to ATTiny85 USI TWI master mode. [lcgamboa]

• Push buttons bounce effect added. [lcgamboa]

• Added oscilloscope support to show measures in screen. [lcgamboa]

Changes

• Use system default application to open the serial terminal. [lcgamboa]

• IO PCF8574 I2C expander support to read pins added. [lcgamboa]

• Use default application to open VCD files in VCDDump part. [lcgamboa]

• Move uCboard from experimental to stable version. [lcgamboa]

• Speed optimization to only process parts when io is updated (only PICSim and simavr backend) [lcgamboa]

Fix

• Remove simavr external interrupt aways enabled with slow down simulation. [lcgamboa]

• Save external EEPROM from boards to workspace files. [lcgamboa]

• Bitbang I2C ACK fixed for all I2C parts. [lcgamboa]

• Issue with device 74xx595 serial ouptut fixed. [lcgamboa]

• Fixes month writing issue in RTCs. [lcgamboa]

• Fix power off statusbar messages. [lcgamboa]

• Board McLab2 7 segments display bug removed. [lcgamboa]

• IO Uart part slow simulation bug removed. [lcgamboa]

• Signal Generator part frequency shift error removed. [lcgamboa]

• Removed the bug when all pins of step motor part are zero. [lcgamboa]

The experimental version has initial (incomplete) support to other microcontrollers using picsim, simavr, qemu-stm32, uCsim and gpsim as backend simulator and some new boards.

The PICSimLab_NOGUI version is to be used on a terminal and must be used with the remote control interface.

Apparently the Appimage format version doesn't work directly on newer Linux versions, it is necessary to specify the libgmodule library path.
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmodule-2.0.so ./PICSimLab-0.8.9-x86_64.AppImage

v0.8.9 (2021-07-25)

New

• Support to TinyDebug message write added to Franzininho DIY board. [lcgamboa]

• Support to open files using drag and drop. [lcgamboa]

• Buzzer new passive mode Tone added. [lcgamboa]

• New part Fixed Voltage. [lcgamboa]

• New part SHT3X temperature and humidity sensor. [lcgamboa]

• New part FM50 temperature sensor. [lcgamboa]

• New part LM35 temperature sensor. [lcgamboa]

• Support to dump Flash memory in rcontrol interface. [lcgamboa]

• Support to dump RAM and internal EEPROM memory in rcontrol interface. [lcgamboa]

• Support to save EEPROM of AVR MCU between PICSimLab sessions. [lcgamboa]

• Pin Viewer tool added. [lcgamboa]

• VCD Dump support to change external VCD viewer (eg. use pulseview instead gtkwave) [lcgamboa]

• New part MPU6050 accel and gyro added (only raw values, no FIFO or DMP) [lcgamboa]

• Support to only draw when need update to reduce cpu usage. [lcgamboa]

• Rcontrol new command loadhex. [lcgamboa]

• New board picture for Franzinino DIY. [dantop03]

Fix

• Buzzer passive mode audio clicks removed. [lcgamboa]

• Removed the problem that caused PICSimLab don't start when qemu-stm32 was not found. [lcgamboa]

The experimental version has initial (incomplete) support to other microcontrollers using picsim, simavr, qemu-stm32, uCsim and gpsim as backend simulator and some new boards.

The PICSimLab_NOGUI version is to be used on a terminal and must be used with the remote control interface.

v0.8.8 (2021-05-08)

New

• New part 7 segment display with BCD-7S decoder. [lcgamboa]

Changes

• Remote control running in one separated thread and support to show real simulation speed. [lcgamboa]

Fix

• Error on arduino uno bootloader addr fixed. [lcgamboa]
• Memory leek of lxrad library removed. [lcgamboa]

The experimental version has initial (incomplete) support to other microcontrollers using picsim, simavr, qemu-stm32, uCsim and gpsim as backend simulator and some new boards.

The PICSimLab_NOGUI version is to be used on a terminal and must be used with the remote control interface.

v0.8.7 (2021-04-22)

New

• All pictures converted to SVG. [lcgamboa]

• Initial support to Franzininho DIY board with attiny85. [lcgamboa]

• Resize board to display size when board size is bigger than display. [lcgamboa]

• Support to scroll ans scale spare parts window with mouse. [lcgamboa]

• Added a status bar int the Spare parts window to show alias, scale and offset. [lcgamboa]

• Adding PQDB board to the project. [Rodrigo Almeida]

• Support to use SVG instead PNG for boards and part pictures. [lcgamboa]

• Oscilloscope channel info on screen added. [lcgamboa]

• Spare part window menu "add" split in "Inputs", "Outputs","Others" and "Virtual" [lcgamboa]

• Part Ultrasonic HC-SR04 added. [lcgamboa]

• Menu entry to download MPLABX debugger plugin. [lcgamboa]

• Command "pins" to show pins status and dir in control interface. [lcgamboa]

Changes

• Docs moved to picsimlab_docs repo. [lcgamboa]

Fix

• Missing +5V on atemga2560 and attiny85 added. [lcgamboa]

• Support to use windows serial ports above COM9. [lcgamboa]

• Arduino IDE bootloaders reset to programm bug fixed. [lcgamboa]

• No value on pins on debug stepping bug removed. [lcgamboa]

The experimental version has initial (incomplete) support to other microcontrollers using picsim, simavr, qemu-stm32, uCsim and gpsim as backend simulator and some new boards.

The PICSimLab_NOGUI version is to be used on a terminal and must be used with the remote control interface.

v0.8.6 (2021-01-25)

New

• Part DC Motor added. [lcgamboa]

• Part encoder (rotary) added. [lcgamboa]

• Support to configure remote control port number in configuration window. [lcgamboa]

• Push buttons and potentiometer animation implemented. [lcgamboa]

• New part rotary potentiometer. [lcgamboa]

• Support to active parts with low input signal for LEDs, RGB LED, Buzzer and 7 segments display. [lcgamboa]

• Support to save board potentiometers position. [lcgamboa]

• Initial support to TCP remote control interface. [lcgamboa]

• Initial support to touch controller xpt2046. [lcgamboa]

• Support to read in ili9340 8 bit interface added. [lcgamboa]

• Support to set offset in Signal Generator added. [lcgamboa]

• Support to qemu_stm32 analog channels added. [lcgamboa]

• Support to ili9341 8 bit parallel mode added. [lcgamboa]

Fix

• Correct state of uart txpin on reset fixed. [lcgamboa]

• Serial bitbang tx bug fixed. [lcgamboa]

The experimental version has initial (incomplete) support to other microcontrollers using picsim, simavr, qemu-stm32, uCsim and gpsim as backend simulator and some new boards.

v0.8.5 (2020-11-28)

New

• Support to read version of workspaces. [lcgamboa]

• Board_avr initial support to bitbang uart added. [lcgamboa]

• Part virtual terminal added. [Luis Claudio Gambôa Lopes]

• Gamepad Analogic part added. [Luis Claudio Gambôa Lopes]

• Support to spare parts orientation (rotation 0, 90, 180 and 270) [Luis Claudio Gambôa Lopes]

• Initial support to part LCD ili9341. [lcgamboa]

• Part lcd ssd1306 SPI and I2C added. [lcgamboa]

• Part Jumper Wires added. [lcgamboa]

• New part IO UART. [lcgamboa]

• SD card part added. [lcgamboa]

• VCD Play part added. [lcgamboa]

• Board STM32_H103 added. [lcgamboa]

• Part ethernet shield w5500 added. [lcgamboa]

• Support to pin name alias in spare part window. [lcgamboa]

• Added support to PIC18F46J50. [lcgamboa]

Changes

• More microcontrollers of PICSim added in PICGenios, Breadboard and McLab2 boards. [lcgamboa]

Fix

• Picsim boards debug disable on load hex bug fixed. [lcgamboa]

• Support to mean value in all pins of boards McLAb2 and PICGenios. [lcgamboa]

• Signal generator fixed to generate digital signal. [lcgamboa]

The experimental version has initial (incomplete) support to other microcontrollers using picsim, simavr, qemu-stm32, uCsim and gpsim as backend simulator and some new boards.

Changelog

v0.8.2 (2020-08-25)

New

• Initial support to PIC microcontrollers of gpsim as backend simulator. [lcgamboa]

• Support for selecting board, processor and files on the command line. [lcgamboa]

• Added support to boards and parts help link and about information. [lcgamboa]

• LCD hd44780 read support added. [lcgamboa]

• Build script with support to build experimental features. [lcgamboa]

• Initial support to uCsim Z80 and STM8S103. [lcgamboa]

• New board Curiosity HPC. [lcgamboa]

• Clock frequency of 64 and 48Mhz added. [lcgamboa]

• Initial support to STM32 Blue Pill board. [lcgamboa]

• Support to uCsim 8051. [lcgamboa]

• New preference tags and support to legacy workspace (before 0.8.2) [lcgamboa]

• Support to save clock speed for each board. [lcgamboa]

• Dynamic parts and boards registration for better modularization. [lcgamboa]

• Examples are moved to other repository. [lcgamboa]

• Menu option to kick load Arduino bootloader. [lcgamboa]

• Support to change debug TCP port. [lcgamboa]

• Support to chose AVR debugger type. [lcgamboa]

• Support to atmega2560. [lcgamboa]

Changes

• Spare parts properties combo and input text sizes increased. [lcgamboa]

• Using boards names instead numbers. [lcgamboa]

• Board debug support methods renamed. [lcgamboa]

• Register macros simplified. [lcgamboa]

• Board registration improved. [lcgamboa]

Fix

• Added missing two phase excitation on step motor part. [lcgamboa]

• Fixed the lose of parts on spare part window when open new pzw file. [lcgamboa]

• AVR GDB debug speed increased. [lcgamboa]

The experimental version has initial (incomplete) support to other microcontrollers and boards.

Changelog

v0.8.1 (2020-06-27)

New

• Support to PIC16F18324. (experimetal) [lcgamboa]

• MCP23017 part added. [lcgamboa]

• Support to flash address greater than 16 bits. [lcgamboa]

• VCD dump analogic added. [lcgamboa]

• LED matrix serial output and angle support added. [lcgamboa]

• Default Open Value for pin support added. [lcgamboa]

• 16e intel hex file read and write.(experimetal) [lcgamboa]

Changes

• Board5 switch from atmega328 to atmega328p. [lcgamboa]

• Remove chtml when not used. [lcgamboa]

• Kicad files updated. [lcgamboa]

Fix

• Disable debug config bit fixed. [lcgamboa]

• LCD hd44780 default initialization bug fixed. [lcgamboa]

• Mean output value bug fixed. [lcgamboa]

• Buzzer audio bug fixed. [lcgamboa]

• Pin name bug fixed. [lcgamboa]

• Temperature system bug fixed. [lcgamboa]

• Mplabxd end free bug fixed. [lcgamboa]

picsimlab_0_6_win32_setup.exe PicsimLab executable and dlls for win32

picsimlab_0_6_win64_setup.exe PicsimLab executable and dlls for win

picsimlab_0.6.0_amd64.deb PicsimLab static linked for linux64

picsimlab_0_7_win32_setup.exe PicsimLab executable and dlls for win32

picsimlab_0_7_win64_setup.exe PicsimLab executable and dlls for win

picsimlab_0.7_amd64.deb PicsimLab static linked for linux64

The experimental version has initial (incomplete) support to other microcontrollers and boards.

picsimlab_0_7_5_win32_setup.exe PicsimLab executable and dlls for win32

picsimlab_0_7_5_win64_setup.exe PicsimLab executable and dlls for win

picsimlab_0.7.5_amd64.deb PicsimLab static linked for linux64