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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 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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CREATOR:
didaCtic and geneRic assEmbly progrAmming simulaTOR

CREATOR project

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Creator https://creatorsim.github.io/creator/
Documentation https://creatorsim.github.io/
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://dcamarmas.github.io/creator
📋 Tests Test Descriptions

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Publications

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
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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

  • 🧑‍💻 Diego Camarmas Alonso (Main Coordinator)
  • 🧑‍💻 Félix García Carballeira
  • 🧑‍💻 Alejandro Calderón Mateos
  • 🧑‍💻 Elías Del Pozo Puñal (Beta Tester)
  • 🧑‍💻 Lucas Elvira Martín (RISC-V and several improvements)

ChangeLog

: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

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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 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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