[Simulavr-devel] New to the list

[Johan Karel Maria Dams]

Hello all.

I recently found simulavr when looking for a solution to give our students 
the possibility to work at home programming Atmel, without using the 
actual hardware.
We use Atmels mostly in our Robotics project (e.g. RoboSoccer, Team Botnia 
3rd place last year at the Open German Competition).

I must say I'm impressed with the software. I've used mostly the older 
simulavr for reasons such as being able to use simulavr-disp, as most of 
our students log in trough ssh from a windows platform, unable to open any 
GUI. In combination with GDB, this makes a very good and usable 
teaching/learning environment.

Simulavrxx looks nice, but for some reason the 'info io-registers' command 
from GDB does not work.(not implemented yet, or a mistake on my side?) As 
said before, the missing simulavr-disp option is the biggest disadvantage
for our purpose.

One more thing: it seems the latest .tar.gz (v0.1.2.2) from simulavr (not 
simulavrxx) has the code for inputting data (using PINB for example) disabled
in main.c
Also, it seems, the older archives (v 0.1.2.1 and 0.1.2) are more complete 
in simulating a full microcontroller (e.g., the newer archive has problems
with timers because these registers seem to be not implemented, while the
older versions do work).


I hope I can help out with the development as soon as I get more familiar 
with the code of both versions, and time permitting.
Maybe some of our students can work on it for a project or so as well.


Best regards,
Johan Dams
Vaasa Polytechnic
Finland