Simulator

[Lionheart]

Hey,

I was wondering if someone know a good simulator for picbasic pro.

Thanks at advance,
Ward

[Normnet]

Some PIC simulators to look into:
Tina
Oshon
Proteus
Microchip's MPLAB
and of course MicroCode Studio Plus.

Norm

[ScaleRobotics]

I have been playing with Virtual Breadboard for about 30 minutes now. It is very cool for the price (free). I have not gotten this far yet, but it looks like it can do many of the things a $$$ simulator can. I am not saying it is as good, just saying that so far, looks like it is worth it's free price many times over.

Here is a video of a few things that can be done with it.
http://www.virtualbreadboard.com/vid...EX/RunHex.html

Site: http://www.virtualbreadboard.net/Hom...8/Default.aspx

[Ioannis]

Their 3D is very impressive. But limited to the chips they support by hardware.

Ioannis

[Acetronics2]

I have been playing with Virtual Breadboard for about 30 minutes now. It is very cool for the price (free).

Hi, Walter

Got a computer self-reset for a right click on a wire I was placing ...

not so good, it seems ...

Alain

[ScaleRobotics]

Got a computer self-reset for a right click on a wire I was placing ...

That is not good at all! Sorry to hear that Alain.

Probably not your issue, but you do need to load 3 supporting programs:

• Latest version of DirectX -
• .Net 2.0 Redistributable.
• J# 2.0 Redistributable.

Here is some trouble shooting information: http://www.virtualbreadboard.com/troubleshooting.html

I worked with it for about two hours, with mixed results. Some larger files with multiple include files did not behave as expected. I never received a reset, but I did have some stackunderflow errors. (I didn't know you could underflow). I had success with smaller programs though. I got mister_e's matrix keypad (using 4x4) to work on it, which I thought was kind of cool. Also got a few blinky and serial lcd programs to work. It did not behave correctly on my altimeter program with the oversampling include file. I kept getting 0 for altitude, and used the slider for my pressure sensor.

So, I think mixed results is the best way to put it. Who knows, maybe they can eventually fix some of the bugs. Maybe something to keep an eye on.

[Acetronics2]

I knew VBB for a while and still have the V 1.4 ansd 1.9 Aboard ... never noticed such behaviour ...

I think Previous versions, ISIS VSM or Multisim 11 give " less worse " results ... despite the free download ...

BTW ... lost all my loging cookies ... that's the worse of all !!!

Alain

[Darrel Taylor]

BTW ... lost all my loging cookies ... that's the worse of all !!!

I hate "Losing Cookies". Although it's usually from "Lager" instead of loging.

But, I am SOOOOO impressed with Proteus/ISIS, I would never even bother trying any other simulators.
It is worth every penny, and I figure it's already saved several thousand $ in hardware, test equipment and time not wasted.

Everyone should have it.

[aliciaDJones]

Informative thread, every one give best information on discussion.