PICSimLab development board guides: supported microcontrollers, simulator backends, debugging options and honest limits for all 21 boards.
uCboard and Remote TCP in PICSimLab: C51, Z80, STM8 and Ripes The last two entries in PICSimLab’s board list are its most unusual. The uCboard is a generic board for three non-PIC, non-AVR architectures — C51, Z80 and STM8 — driven by the uCsim backend. The Remote TCP board is not a physical board at…
ESP32-DevKitC and ESP32-C3-DevKitC-02 in PICSimLab: QEMU Boards PICSimLab has two ESP32 boards: the ESP32-DevKitC and the ESP32-C3-DevKitC-02, both running on the qemu-esp32 backend. They are genuinely useful for running ESP32 firmware without hardware — but wireless support is the most exaggerated topic in PICSimLab coverage, so this page states the official position precisely, including what…
Blue Pill and STM32 H103 in PICSimLab: The Only Two STM32 Boards Let us start with the fact that matters most, because many pages get it wrong: PICSimLab supports exactly two STM32 microcontrollers — the STM32F103C8T6 on the Blue Pill board and the STM32F103RBT6 on the STM32 H103 board. There are no other STM32 boards,…
Arduino Mega and Franzininho DIY in PICSimLab: ATmega2560 and ATtiny85 PICSimLab’s AVR line-up has a big board and a tiny one. The Arduino Mega runs the ATmega2560 — the largest AVR in the simulator — while the Franzininho DIY runs the little ATtiny85 and brings a piece of Brazilian open-source hardware into the board list….
Arduino Uno and Nano in PICSimLab: ATmega328P with simavr The Arduino Uno and Arduino Nano are the two ATmega328P boards in PICSimLab. Both run on the simavr backend, both can be programmed the Arduino way, and both offer something the PIC boards do not: two debugging paths instead of one. If you want to practise…
PQDB and gpboard in PICSimLab: PIC18F4520 and the gpsim Board This page pairs two of PICSimLab’s least typical PIC boards. The PQDB is an open-source hardware board adapted to a single PIC chip, while the gpboard is the only board in PICSimLab that runs on the gpsim backend instead of picsim — a difference that…
Curiosity, Curiosity HPC and Xpress Boards in PICSimLab Three of PICSimLab’s PIC boards share the same one-line official description: “simple PIC microcontroller development board”. They are the Curiosity, the Curiosity HPC and the Xpress — lightweight boards on the picsim backend, aimed at straightforward PIC projects rather than at imitating one specific feature-rich commercial product…
Breadboard and X Boards in PICSimLab: The Generic PIC/AVR Boards Most PICSimLab boards imitate a specific commercial product. Two do not: the Breadboard and the X board are generic boards — minimal carriers with only the essentials — designed so you build the actual circuit yourself from spare parts. They are also the most flexible…
McLab1 and K16F Boards in PICSimLab: PIC16F84, 628 and 648 Not every PIC course starts with a PIC16F877A. A large amount of classic teaching material — especially older books and entry-level courses — is built on the small PIC16F84, PIC16F628 and PIC16F648. PICSimLab covers those chips with two boards: the Labtools McLab1 and the K16F,…
PICGenios Board in PICSimLab: Microgenius PIC Projects PICGenios is the second “full-size” PIC board in PICSimLab, and it is the board many Brazilian and Latin American PIC courses are built around. In the simulator it is interchangeable with the McLab2 for chip support — the official documentation gives both boards exactly the same microcontroller list…
