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CREATOR Project

	URL
💻 CREATOR	https://creatorsim.github.io/creator
🌐 Project Website	https://creatorsim.github.io
📖 Documentation	https://creatorsim.github.io/creator-wiki
📦 Docker Hub	https://hub.docker.com/repositories/creatorsim
📈 Usage Statistics	https://lookerstudio.google.com/s/pQXDJar8aoM
📧 Email	[email protected]

Source Code

	URL
📋 Source Code	https://github.com/creatorsim/creator
🔨 Assembler	https://github.com/creatorsim/creator-assembler
🔬 Nightly Build	https://github.com/creatorsim/creator-beta
📝 Checker	https://github.com/creatorsim/creator-checker

Supported Internet Browsers

Hardware Integration

Local Device

	Repository	Documentation	Docker
Espressif ESP32 Gateway	ESP32 Gateway Repository	ESP32 Gateway Documentation	ESP32 Gateway Docker
SBC Boards Gateway	SBC Gateway Repository	SBC Gateway Documentation

Remote Device

	Repository	Documentation	Docker
Remote Labortory	Remote Laboratory Repository	Remote Laboratory Documentation	Remote Laboratory Docker

Examples

	RISC-V (RV32IMFD)	RISC-V (RV64IMFD)	MIPS-32
ALU operations	Open Example	Open Example	Open Example
Store/Load Data in Memory	Open Example	Open Example	Open Example
FPU operations	Open Example	Open Example	Open Example
Loop	Open Example	Open Example	Open Example
Branch	Open Example	Open Example	Open Example
Loop + Memory	Open Example	Open Example	Open Example
Copy of matrices	Open Example	Open Example	Open Example
I/O Syscalls	Open Example	Open Example	Open Example
I/O Syscalls + Strings	Open Example	Open Example	Open Example
Subrutines	Open Example	Open Example	Open Example
Factorial	Open Example	Open Example	Open Example

Publications

2026

📰 CREATOR: An integrated development environment for programming assembly in RISC-V architectures

Journal paper: SoftwareX
Authors: Diego Camarmas-Alonso, Félix García-Carballeira, Alejandro Calderón-Mateos, Elías Del-Pozo-Puñal, Juan Carlos Cano-Resa, Elisa Utrilla-Arroyo
🔗 Open publication

@article{CAMARMASALONSO2026102792,
	title = {CREATOR: An integrated development environment for programming assembly in RISC-V architectures},
	journal = {SoftwareX},
	volume = {35},
	pages = {102792},
	year = {2026},
	issn = {2352-7110},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2026.102792},
	url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352711026002840},
	author = {Diego Camarmas-Alonso and Felix Garcia-Carballeira and Alejandro Calderon-Mateos and Elias Del-Pozo-Puñal and Juan Carlos Cano-Resa and Elisa Utrilla-Arroyo}
}

📰 CREATOR-Sail: A RISC-V web simulator based on Sail ISA specification

Journal paper: Journal of Systems Architecture
Authors: Juan Carlos Cano-Resa, Félix García-Carballeira, Diego Camarmas-Alonso, Alejandro Calderón-Mateos
🔗 Open publication

@article{CANORESA2026103809,
  title    = {CREATOR-Sail: A RISC-V web simulator based on Sail ISA specification},
  journal  = {Journal of Systems Architecture},
  volume   = {176},
  pages    = {103809},
  year     = {2026},
  issn     = {1383-7621},
  doi      = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sysarc.2026.103809},
  url      = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S138376212600127X},
  author   = {Juan Carlos Cano-Resa and Felix Garcia-Carballeira and Diego Camarmas-Alonso and Alejandro Calderon-Mateos},
  keywords = {RISC-V, Sail, Web simulator, Extensible simulator, Instruction set architecture},
}

📰 CREATOR: A RISC-V web simulator based on Sail specification language

Conference poster: RISC-V Summit Europe
Authors: Juan Carlos Cano-Resa, Félix García-Carballeira, Diego Camarmas-Alonso, Alejandro Calderón-Mateos
🔗 Open publication

📰 CREATOR: entorno de desarrollo integrado para la docencia y la investigación en arquitecturas RISC-V

Seminar: Jornadas Sarteco
Authors: Félix García-Carballeira, Diego Camarmas-Alonso, Alejandro Calderón-Mateos
🔗 Open publication

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

Seminar: CAPAP-H
Authors: Diego Camarmas-Alonso
🔗 Open publication

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,
  author    = {Diego Camarmas-Alonso and Felix Garcia-Carballeira and Alejandro Calderon-Mateos and Elías Del-Pozo-Puñal},
  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

Seminar: CAPAP-H
Authors: Félix García-Carballeira
🔗 Open publication

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,
  author    = {Diego Camarmas-Alonso and Felix Garcia-Carballeira and Alejandro Calderon-Mateos and Elías Del-Pozo-Puñal},
  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

🧑‍💻 Elías Del Pozo Puñal (Beta tester)
🧑‍💻 Lucas Elvira Martín (RISC-V and several improvements)
🧑‍💻 José Antonio Verde Jiménez (Real hardware integration)
🧑‍💻 Álvaro Guerrero Espinosa (New compiler)
🧑‍💻 Elisa Utrilla Arroyo (Real hardware integration, Arduino integration)
🧑‍💻 Luis Daniel Casais Mezquida (Website migration, interrupts, timers, and memory-mapped devices)
🧑‍💻 Jorge Ramos Santana (core/tests rewrite, new web UI, new CLI, RV64 & Z80 architectures)
🧑‍💻 Juan Carlos Cano Resa (Sail integration)

ChangeLog

6.1.x

Sail integration:
- RISC-V 32 and RISC-V 64 full specification supported
- Cache module integrated
Arduino support:
- ESP32 Microcontroller
- Arduino GPIO simulation UI
New activity bar

Source Code: https://github.com/creatorsim/creator-v6.1
Try Version: https://creatorsim.github.io/creator-v6.1

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

Source Code: https://github.com/creatorsim/creator-v6.0
Try Version: https://creatorsim.github.io/creator-v6.0

5.0.x

New functionality:
- New assembler based on Rust
- New architecture editor based on CodeMirror
User Interface:
- Several improvements and minor bugs fixed

Source Code: https://github.com/creatorsim/creator-v5.0
Try Version: https://creatorsim.github.io/creator-v5.0

4.1.x

New functionality:
- CREATOR Remote Lab
- Dockers for CREATOR
User Interface:
- Several improvements and minor bugs fixed

Source Code: https://github.com/creatorsim/creator-v4.1
Try Version: https://creatorsim.github.io/creator-v4.1

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

Source Code: https://github.com/creatorsim/creator-v4.0
Try Version: https://creatorsim.github.io/creator-v4.0

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

Source Code: https://github.com/creatorsim/creator-v3.2
Try Version: https://creatorsim.github.io/creator-v3.2

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

Source Code: https://github.com/creatorsim/creator-v3.1
Try Version: https://creatorsim.github.io/creator-v3.1

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

Source Code: https://github.com/creatorsim/creator-v3.0
Try Version: https://creatorsim.github.io/creator-v3.0

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:
- Preload the MIPS architecture:
  - https://creatorsim.github.io/creator/?architecture=MIPS-32
- Preload example 'e3' from example set 'uc3m-ec':
  - https://creatorsim.github.io/creator/?example_set=uc3m-ec&example=e3
Bootstrap-vue upgraded up to v2.15.0

Source Code: https://github.com/creatorsim/creator-v2.1
Try Version: https://creatorsim.github.io/creator-v2.1

1.3.x

First CREATOR release

Source Code: https://github.com/creatorsim/creator-v1.3
Try Version: https://creatorsim.github.io/creator-v1.3

Developing CREATOR

See CREATOR Wiki - Development Guide.

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