PIC Simulator

This is my thread from the Cult of Mac forum, I thought OS X is built on UNIX so a solution for a linux system may be a solution for mine. That, and if there is a solution for linux i can get it working for my friend Please help if you can.

Originally Posted by MacHacker

I'm looking for a 16F84 PIC microprocessor simulator for my mac. I'm currently doing an electronics diploma and we use a program called PIC Development Studio which installs as a Window application but actually is a java app, unfortunately I can't find a way to get this to work (yes I know some bright sparks will point out .exe files don't run under OSX but I still have the java files for it). Does anyone know how I can get this program running on my mac or a program that can do the same thing? Any help is appreciated.

EDIT: I think I may have narrowed it down a bit, it seems it has something to do with the way the program is normally executed, when you look at it on a Windows box the icon in the start menu you would normally click on seems to be somewhat of a batch file in the way it starts this program. It goes something like: C:/WINDOWS/sytem32/javaw.exe -*****(can't remember what's here but it only opens the splash screen) -cp .;comm.jar;picdev.jar;kunststoff.jar Workbench . Does anyone know anything about java and how I could make this work with a script file. I know the first bit starts the java virtual machine and the bit in the middle opens the initial splash screen but i'm not sure what happens after that. Also I think it has to do with the class attributes not being set properly. Again, help is appreciated.

[Prometheum]

Find the jar with main in it, and java -jar classfile should work. If not...

$ apt-cache show simulpic
Package: simulpic
Priority: optional
Section: universe/electronics
Installed-Size: 92
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:2005-1-28-6ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.2), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.2)
Filename: pool/universe/s/simulpic/simulpic_2005-1-28-6ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 23012
MD5sum: fed6ea5690e07b363e85db03485cef56
SHA1: aa79808913d064716d3fdcbfbb3c12d7bc2de0e5
SHA256: 8dd7cf3fb6b8d94ea6d5b3bac3af2a343650989c84ee5732d226a0491b1bc628
Description: simulator for Microchip PIC16F84 microcontroller
 This software allows to simulate the execution of any program on a Microchip
 PIC16F84 microcontroller.
Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
Origin: Ubuntu

$ apt-cache search nitpic
nitpic - Simulator for the Microchip PIC16C84 microcontroller
$ apt-cache show nitpic
Package: nitpic
Priority: extra
Section: universe/electronics
Installed-Size: 208
Maintainer: Ernesto Nadir Crespo Avila <ecrespo@debianvenezuela.org>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.1-11
Depends: binutils, libc6 (>= 2.4-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.0), libice6, libsm6
, libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.0), libx11-6, libxaw7, libxext6, libxmu6, libxt6
Filename: pool/universe/n/nitpic/nitpic_0.1-11_amd64.deb
Size: 39636
MD5sum: f2c75b073b625f51ef18a4084bdc03f4
SHA1: 588bbb8fba38031cf9e49c81c450bdff08140914
SHA256: 08f484c0bd9eff2ec118719af92be6d3672a90fd678eb374de291d5e01f45a6f
Description: Simulator for the Microchip PIC16C84 microcontroller
 Nitpic is an X-based simulator for the Microchip PIC family of
 microcontrollers.  It currently supports only the PIC16C84.
 This is beta software.
Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
Origin: Ubuntu

Is that what you need?

[Prometheum]

Apparently simulpic is portable C++ and should probably have an OS X port. Some guy on the internet claims to have ported it to the Amiga with no problems.

Originally Posted by Prometheum

Find the jar with main in it, and java -jar classfile should work. If not...

$ apt-cache show simulpic

Package: simulpic

Priority: optional

Section: universe/electronics

Installed-Size: 92

Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com>

Original-Maintainer: Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>

Architecture: amd64

Version: 1:2005-1-28-6ubuntu1

Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.2), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.2)

Filename: pool/universe/s/simulpic/simulpic_2005-1-28-6ubuntu1_amd64.deb

Size: 23012

MD5sum: fed6ea5690e07b363e85db03485cef56

SHA1: aa79808913d064716d3fdcbfbb3c12d7bc2de0e5

SHA256: 8dd7cf3fb6b8d94ea6d5b3bac3af2a343650989c84ee5732d226a0491b1bc628

Description: simulator for Microchip PIC16F84 microcontroller

 This software allows to simulate the execution of any program on a Microchip

 PIC16F84 microcontroller.

Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com

Origin: Ubuntu



$ apt-cache search nitpic

nitpic - Simulator for the Microchip PIC16C84 microcontroller

$ apt-cache show nitpic

Package: nitpic

Priority: extra

Section: universe/electronics

Installed-Size: 208

Maintainer: Ernesto Nadir Crespo Avila <ecrespo@debianvenezuela.org>

Architecture: amd64

Version: 0.1-11

Depends: binutils, libc6 (>= 2.4-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.0), libice6, libsm6

, libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.0), libx11-6, libxaw7, libxext6, libxmu6, libxt6

Filename: pool/universe/n/nitpic/nitpic_0.1-11_amd64.deb

Size: 39636

MD5sum: f2c75b073b625f51ef18a4084bdc03f4

SHA1: 588bbb8fba38031cf9e49c81c450bdff08140914

SHA256: 08f484c0bd9eff2ec118719af92be6d3672a90fd678eb374de291d5e01f45a6f

Description: Simulator for the Microchip PIC16C84 microcontroller

 Nitpic is an X-based simulator for the Microchip PIC family of

 microcontrollers.  It currently supports only the PIC16C84.

 This is beta software.

Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com

Origin: Ubuntu

Is that what you need?

Thanks, but unfortunately the command didn't work for me. I also think you don't have the program I'm using. The program I'm trying to get running can be found here

http://sourceforge.net/projects/picdev/

No matter what I try I can't get it working, Thanks for your reply by the way