Electrical – What circuit simulators can also simulate ESP8266 and/or ATmega328

arduinoesp8266simulation

I'm going to start soon some ESP8266 and Arduino Nano projects. I've used some simulators in the past, but none of them simulated these ICs.

Dou you know if there is any simulator, that would also include basic passive components?
Clarification: ideally, the simulator will take and run the Arduino/ESP code.

Can be online or desktop (Win/Linux/Mac), free or paid.

Best Answer

Microcontrollers do not have comprehensive simulation models. You can maaaybe (if you try incredibly hard) get a vendor model for a GPIO block but even that would be an engineer's fantasy come true. Typically, reading the datasheet and doing some characterization on your own is enough to verify the Chip's analog performance. If you're talking about a CPU emulator, that's something else altogether...