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simavr
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buserror / simavr

simavr

simavr is a lean, mean and hackable AVR simulator for linux & OSX

2Distinct people
17Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
1.8KGitHub stars
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What it is

simavr is a lean, mean and hackable AVR simulator for linux & OSX

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

I do use it as interpreter on embedded boards! Preprocess/trim the headers you need, and add #!/bin/tcc -run at the top of your .C file, add a +x to it and it'll run just fine!…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 11:34:28 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year17 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-12-29 11:22:18 UTC to 2025-10-07 13:24:43 UTC.

0123452014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Haven't played with these yet, but they do look interesting. Might have also to add support for the new IO blocks in my AVR simulator simavr[0] -- I still use the AVR a lot, since they have no pipeline and other fancy CPU optimization, they are 'cycle accurate' and are a lot closer to a PIO than most other more complex 32 bit CPUs.. Now that they ALSO have an equivalent to PIO it might even help with reaching faster IO speed when toggling pins. [0]: https://github.com/buserror/simavr
In PSA: If you're a fan of ATmega, try AVR Dx
I wrote my own pet Apple IIe emulator for linux fairly recently [0]. It works fairly well, even if it doesn't try to emulate an exact cycle accurate 'pixel' video modes, instead, it 'cheats' and do it line by line. I think it is a good tradeoff between quality of emulation and CPU spent doing it... Only some demos will fail to display properly (mostly the ones changing video mode during line displays!), all the games and tools and applications I tried works just fine. I mostly did my emu due to the rather poor quality I found for linux emulators I've seen, the 'goto' one is linapple, but the codebase is rather crusty.. I wanted a cleaner base to hack on, without the baggage -- more in the style of my own AVR emulator [1]. I've got a very big patchset to push 'soon' with a new UI library (that will be a topic of its own!) and a bunch of ne
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In Apple II Emulation Evaluation (2022)

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