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CREATOR (didaCtic geneRic assEmbly progrAmming simulaTOR)

CREATOR is a generic simulator to program in assembly in which you can simulate the operation of different architectures on the same tool.
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CREATOR:
didaCtic and geneRic assEmbly progrAmming simulaTOR

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CREATOR project

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URL
Creator https://creatorsim.github.io/creator/
Documentation https://creatorsim.github.io/wiki
Examples included 👉 RISC-V 👉 MIPS-32

Dockers for CREATOR

URL
Docker Hub https://hub.docker.com/repositories/creatorsim
Dockers Documentation 👉 Gateway 👉 Remote Lab

Source code and testing

URL
Source Code https://github.com/creatorsim/creator/
🔬 Nightly build https://github.com/creatorsim/creator-beta/
📋 Tests Test Descriptions

Supported Internet Browsers

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Publications

2025

📰 Simulador web para RISC-V basado en la especificación SAIL
  • Conference paper: Jornadas Sarteco
  • Authors: Juan Carlos Cano-Resa, Félix García-Carballeira, Diego Camarmas-Alonso, Alejandro Calderón-Mateos
  • 🔗 Open publication
@inproceedings{cano_resa_2025_15773218,
  author    = {Cano-Resa, Juan Carlos and Garcia-Carballeira, Felix and Camarmas-Alonso, Diego and Calderon-Mateos, Alejandro},
  title     = {Simulador web para RISC-V basado en la especificación SAIL},
  booktitle = {Avances en Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores. Actas de las Jornadas SARTECO},
  year      = 2025,
  pages     = {367-376},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  month     = jun,
  venue     = {Sevilla, Spain},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.15773218},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15773218}
}
📰 Extensión del simulador CREATOR para integrar funcionalidades de Arduino: caso de estudio con el microcontrolador ESP32
  • Conference paper: Jornadas Sarteco
  • Authors: Elisa Utrilla-Arroyo, Diego Camarmas-Alonso, Félix García-Carballeira, Alejandro Calderón-Mateos
  • 🔗 Open publication
@inproceedings{utrilla_arroyo_2025_15773284,
  author    = {Utrilla-Arroyo, Elisa and Camarmas-Alonso, Diego and Garcia-Carballeira, Felix and Calderon-Mateos, Alejandro},
  title     = {Extensión del simulador CREATOR para integrar funcionalidades de Arduino: caso de estudio con el microcontrolador ESP32},
  booktitle = {Avances en Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores. Actas de las Jornadas SARTECO},
  year      = 2025,
  pages     = {637-643},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  month     = jun,
  venue     = {Sevilla, Spain},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.15773284},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15773284}
}
📰 CREATOR: un entorno de desarrollo integrado para la docencia y la investigación en procesadores RISC-V

2024

📰 CREATOR: An Educational Integrated Development Environment for RISC-V Programming
  • Journal paper: IEEE Access
  • Authors: Diego Camarmas-Alonso, Félix García-Carballeira, Alejandro Calderón-Mateos, Elías Del-Pozo-Puñal
  • 🔗 Open publication
@article{10540579,
  author  = {Camarmas-Alonso, Diego and Garcia-Carballeira, Felix and Calderon-Mateos, Alejandro and Del-Pozo-Puñal, Elias},
  journal = {IEEE Access},
  title   = {CREATOR: An Educational Integrated Development Environment for RISC-V Programming},
  year    = {2024},
  volume  = {},
  number  = {},
  pages   = {1-1},
  doi     = {10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3406935}
}
📰 Servicio de laboratorio remoto para la integración del simulador CREATOR con hardware RISC-V
  • Conference paper: Jornadas Sarteco
  • Authors: Diego Camarmas-Alonso, Félix García-Carballeira, Alejandro Calderón-Mateos, Elías Del-Pozo-Puñal
  • 🔗 Open publication
@inproceedings{camarmas_alonso_2024_11632955,
  author    = {Camarmas-Alonso, Diego and Garcia-Carballeira, Felix and Calderon-Mateos, Alejandro and Del-Pozo-Puñal, Elías},
  title     = {{Servicio de laboratorio remoto para la integración del simulador CREATOR con hardware RISC-V}},
  booktitle = {{Avances en Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores. Actas de las Jornadas SARTECO}},
  year      = 2024,
  pages     = {65-371},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  month     = jun,
  venue     = {A Coruña, Spain},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.11632955},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11632955}
}

2023

📰 CREATOR: a tool for teaching assembly programming with RISC-V
  • Conference poster: RISC-V Summit Europe
  • Authors: Félix García-Carballeira, Alejandro Calderón-Mateos, Diego Camarmas-Alonso, Elías Del-Pozo-Puñal
  • 🔗 Open publication
📰 Integración del simulador CREATOR con hardware RISC-V: caso de estudio con microcontrolador ESP32
  • Conference paper: Jornadas Sarteco
  • Authors: Diego Camarmas-Alonso, Félix García-Carballeira, Alejandro Calderón-Mateos, Elías Del-Pozo-Puñal
  • 🔗 Open publication
@proceedings{diego_camarmas_alonso_2023_8378899,
  title     = {{Integración del simulador CREATOR con hardware RISC-V: caso de estudio con microcontrolador ESP32}},
  year      = 2023,
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  month     = sep,
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.8378899},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8378899}
}
📰 CREATOR como herramienta docente para la enseñanza de la programación en ensamblador con RISC V

2021

📰 A new generic simulator for the teaching of assembly programming
  • Conference paper: CLEI
  • Authors: Diego Camarmas-Alonso, Félix García-Carballeira, Alejandro Calderón-Mateos, Elías Del-Pozo-Puñal
  • 🔗 Open publication
@inproceedings{9640144,
  author    = {Camarmas-Alonso, Diego and García-Carballeira, Félix and Del-Pozo-Puñal, Elías and Mateos, Alejandro Calderón},
  booktitle = {2021 XLVII Latin American Computing Conference (CLEI)},
  title     = {A new generic simulator for the teaching of assembly programming},
  year      = {2021},
  volume    = {},
  number    = {},
  pages     = {1-9},
  doi       = {10.1109/CLEI53233.2021.9640144}
}
📰 CREATOR: Simulador didáctico y genérico para la programación en ensamblador
  • Conference paper: Jornadas Sarteco
  • Authors: Diego Camarmas-Alonso, Félix García-Carballeira, Alejandro Calderón-Mateos, Elías Del-Pozo-Puñal
  • 🔗 Open publication
@proceedings{diego_camarmas_alonso_2021_5130302,
  title     = {{CREATOR: Simulador didáctico y genérico para la programación en ensamblador}},
  year      = 2021,
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  month     = jul,
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.5130302},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5130302}
}

Authors

Contributors

ChangeLog

:atom: 6.0.x:
  • BREAKING CHANGES:
    • New YAML architecture format (w/ JSON schema)
    • New library format (Existing libraries must be recompiled)
  • New functionality:
    • Interrupts and timers
    • Memory-mapped devices
    • Validate program execution through the CLI (--validator)
  • New architectures:
    • RISC-V 64
    • RISC-V 32 (w/ interrupts)
    • Z80
  • User Interface:
    • Revamped web user interface
      • Revamped memory viewer
      • Vastly improved mobile support
      • New Monaco-based editor
      • Libraries now have metadata to display help
    • Vim mode in web editor
    • Revamped CLI version
  • Modular design:
    • Migrate project to Vite and ES Modules, which vastly improves the developer experience
    • Update to Vue 3, Bootstrap 5 & Codemirror 6, among others, & remove jQuery
    • Rewrote website and many other core parts in TypeScript
    • Revamped unittests
  • Other fixes:
    • Fix errors in instruction implementation
:atom: 5.0.x:
  • New functionality:
    • New assembler based on Rust
    • New architecture editor based on CodeMirror
  • User Interface:
    • Several improvements and minor bugs fixed
:atom: 4.1.x:
  • New functionality:
    • CREATOR Remote Lab
    • Dockers for CREATOR
  • User Interface:
    • Several improvements and minor bugs fixed
:atom: 4.0.x:
  • New functionality:
    • Integration with real hardware based on RISC-V (ESP32)
    • Possibility to choose the default working architecture
  • User Interface:
    • Improved register file visualization
    • Performance improvements (e.g. program execution, data segment loading, etc.)
    • Updating external dependencies (fontawesome v6.2.1, jquery v3.6.3, lodash v4.17.15, and Apexchart)
    • Several minor bugs fixed
:atom: 3.2.x:
  • User Interface:
    • New link to the quick reference guide for instructions in PDF
    • The current assembly code can be shared as a simple link
  • Modular design:
    • Simplified pseudo-instruction forms
    • Improved memory detail panel
    • Hardware counter updated to know the number of clock cycles consumed since the last reset
:atom: 3.1.x:
  • User Interface:
    • Example set added
    • The Instruction help width can now be configured from the configuration modal
    • Clarification on the initial CREATOR page
    • Better responsive behavior on different screen sizes
    • Power consumption added
  • Modular design:
    • Interface based on Vue components for all UI elements in CREATOR
    • Simulated main memory reworked
    • Architecture improved
:atom: 3.0.x:
  • Several minor RISC-V improvements
  • More modular design:
    • Initial user interface based on Vue components
    • Improved modular design on the execution engine
  • Improved instruction definitions:
    • New CREATOR API for instruction definitions
    • Support for helping on checking Stack Calling Conventions
      • Checking saved registers on the stack are restored
      • Colored stack
      • SP and FP pointers are shown on the memory stack detail panel
:atom: 2.1.x:
  • RISC-V supported (Thanks to Lucas Elvira Martín @luck5941)
  • CREATOR accessibility improved up to WCAG 2.0 (Level AAA)
  • Command line version of CREATOR:
    • Help:
      • ./creator.sh -h
    • Example: creator compiles and executes the example2.txt, showing the final state:
      • ./creator.sh -a architecture/MIPS-32.json -s examples/MIPS/example2.txt
    • Example: save final state into 'output.txt' file:
      • ./creator.sh -a ./architecture/MIPS-32.json -s ./examples/MIPS/example2.txt -o min > output.txt
    • Example: compare the final state and the state saved on 'output.txt' file:
      • ./creator.sh -a ./architecture/MIPS-32.json -s ./examples/MIPS/example2.txt -o min -r output.txt
  • Creator now accepts three GET values:
  • Bootstrap-vue upgraded up to v2.15.0

Developing CREATOR

See docs/dev.md.

Sponsors

Integrated development environment for teaching and research on RISC-V processors (PDC2023-145832-I00) funded by MICIU/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by the European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR sponsor logos

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    CREATOR is a generic teaching simulator to program in assembly in which you can simulate the operation of different architectures on the same tool. This simulator is designed to be used as a tool i…

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    Development version of CREATOR.

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    CREATOR home page

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  4. creator-wiki creator-wiki Public

    CREATOR Documentation

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  5. creator-gateway-esp32 creator-gateway-esp32 Public

    CREATOR gateway for Espressif ESP32

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  6. creator-remote-lab creator-remote-lab Public

    CREATOR remote lab server

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Repositories

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  • creator-beta Public Forked from dcamarmas/creator

    Development version of CREATOR.

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    JavaScript 0 LGPL-2.1 26 9 1 Updated Jan 17, 2026
  • creator-beta-creatino Public Forked from dcamarmas/creator

    Integration of CREATOR with Arduino

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    Vue 4 LGPL-2.1 26 0 0 Updated Jan 16, 2026
  • creator Public Forked from dcamarmas/creator

    CREATOR is a generic teaching simulator to program in assembly in which you can simulate the operation of different architectures on the same tool. This simulator is designed to be used as a tool in which students can put into practice the brews seen in the theoretical classes of the subjects of Architecture and Computer Structure.

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    JavaScript 28 LGPL-2.1 26 0 0 Updated Jan 16, 2026
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  • creatorsim.github.io Public

    CREATOR home page

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    Vue 5 GPL-3.0 2 1 0 Updated Jan 16, 2026
  • web-beta Public Forked from creatorsim/creatorsim.github.io

    New CREATOR home page

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    Vue 0 GPL-3.0 2 1 0 Updated Jan 11, 2026
  • creator-gateway-esp32 Public

    CREATOR gateway for Espressif ESP32

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    Python 0 LGPL-2.1 0 0 0 Updated Jan 9, 2026
  • creator-v5.0 Public archive

    Version 5.0 of the CREATOR simulator

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    JavaScript 0 LGPL-2.1 0 0 0 Updated Jan 9, 2026
  • creator-v4.1 Public archive

    Version 4.1 of the CREATOR simulator

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    JavaScript 0 LGPL-2.1 0 0 0 Updated Jan 9, 2026
  • creator-v4.0 Public archive

    Version 4.0 of the CREATOR simulator

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