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ESP32-C3 simulator, on the real memory map

Mokxi models the ESP32-C3-DevKitM-1. A RISC-V core at 160 MHz, with GPIO, IO_MUX, UART0, the SYSTIMER and ADC1 at their real addresses. Firmware runs at real time here; test the finished build on the physical board too.

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ESP32-C3-DevKitM-1: blinklive0.000 s 0.00x
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The model

What is modeled

Taken from the board's own contract document and put in plain words, with what is missing listed underneath.

Core
RV32IMC with Zicsr, machine mode, one instruction per cycle at 160 MHz
GPIO and IO_MUX
Real register offsets, input enable on every pad at reset
UART0
Paced at the configured baud rate, wired to the serial monitor
SYSTIMER
Alarms, which park the core during delay() rather than spinning on it
ADC1
One-shot conversions on GPIO 0 to 4: twelve bits, with the four attenuations
Memory map
The real one for everything above, so a build is not Mokxi-specific
WiFi, simulated
WiFi.h, HTTPClient.h and WebServer.h over a network written in software: no radio, no 802.11, no real internet

Not in the model

  • A radio of any kind. There is no 802.11 and no Bluetooth in the model. WiFi is simulated instead (the Arduino API over a network of ours, with no real internet behind it), and every page that mentions it says so.
  • ADC2, the ADC's DMA and digital controller, and the eFuse calibration curve. ADC1 one-shot is the path analogRead takes.
  • Other outlines on this page: the XIAO ESP32-C3 and the SuperMini are the same chip and have pages of their own.
  • Vendor ESP-IDF binaries. The firmware runtime here is ours.
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Projects

Every built-in project on the ESP32-C3

Each has its own page with the circuit running, the code and a parts list.

Libraries

Arduino libraries that compile as they are

Paste a tutorial that includes one of these and it builds: each is written for Mokxi, on its own drivers, under the name the tutorials use. For any other library the build names the Mokxi header that does the same job.

Servo.h
attach, write, writeMicroseconds, read, detach, on any pin
Wire.h
I2C as a master; Wire.begin() puts it on GPIO 8 (SDA) and GPIO 9 (SCL)
SPI.h
transfer and transactions, on the board’s usual SPI pins
EEPROM.h
read, write, update, get, put and EEPROM[i], kept in 4 KB of RAM, which a reset clears: this board has no EEPROM to write
LiquidCrystal_I2C.h
the 16x2 LCD behind its I2C backpack
Adafruit_GFX.h and Adafruit_SSD1306.h
the 128x64 I2C OLED: text, pixels, lines, rectangles, circles, triangles and bitmaps
Adafruit_NeoPixel.h
WS2812 strips and panels
ESP32Servo.h
the ESP32 spelling of Servo.h
DHT.h
the DHT11 and DHT22: temperature, humidity and the heat index, as floats you can print
OneWire.h and DallasTemperature.h
DS18B20 thermometers, any number on one pin, found by the 1-Wire search
Adafruit_BME280.h, Adafruit_BMP280.h and SparkFunBME280.h
the Bosch pressure sensors: temperature, pressure, humidity and altitude
RTClib.h
the DS3231 and DS1307 clocks, with DateTime and TimeSpan
Adafruit_SHT31.h
the SHT31’s temperature and humidity, CRC checked
LedControl.h
MAX7219 eight-digit displays and 8x8 matrices: digits, characters, rows and single LEDs
Adafruit_LEDBackpack.h
the HT16K33 four-digit backpack: numbers, raw segments, the colon, brightness and blink
Adafruit_TCS34725.h
the TCS34725’s red, green, blue and clear counts, lux and color temperature
Adafruit_SGP30.h
the SGP30’s CO2eq and TVOC, its baseline and humidity compensation
Adafruit_INA219.h
current, bus voltage and power through the INA219’s shunt
Adafruit_ADS1X15.h
the ADS1115’s four sixteen-bit inputs, single or differential
Adafruit_MCP23X17.h
the MCP23017’s sixteen pins, one at a time or a port at once
HX711.h
the HX711 load cell amplifier: tare, set_scale and get_units, the units as floats you can print
Learn

Tutorials that use this board

Each one ends in a running circuit, on this same board.

Blink an LED on the ESP32-C3, step by stepAn HTTP GET request: fetch the weather as JSONConnect to WiFi and serve a page

Questions

Is it free?

Yes. Every board and every part is on the free plan, with no account needed.

Does it simulate WiFi?

Yes, and it says plainly that it is simulated. Your sketch uses the real Arduino calls (WiFi.begin, WiFi.status, HTTPClient, WebServer), and the board joins a network, fetches a page and serves one. Underneath there is no radio, no 802.11 and no real internet: four made-up addresses under .mokxi exist and nothing a sketch does leaves this tab.

Will my firmware run on a real board?

Firmware for the modeled peripherals targets the DevKitM-1 register offsets. Test the finished build on the physical board before relying on it.

Do I need an account?

Only to save projects to the cloud and share them by link.

Also here

The other boards

Every one of these runs today, and every one is free.

Looking for the shorter introduction? See the ESP32 simulator page.

Arduino Uno R3
runs now
A complete ATmega328P, with three timers in every mode, USART0, the ADC, interrupts and sleep.
Blink, serial, a held button and a hardware PWM fade, at 16 MHz and real time.
Open the board page
Arduino Nano
runs now
The Uno's ATmega328P on a board 45 by 18 mm, so it pushes into the breadboard instead of standing beside it.
Two more analog inputs than an Uno, and the same firmware runs on both.
Open the board page
Arduino Mega 2560
runs now
The big Arduino: fifty-four digital pins, sixteen analog inputs and four serial ports, on the ATmega2560.
Everything an Uno sketch knows how to do, with enough pins left over to do it to twelve things at once.
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Arduino Leonardo
runs now
An Uno-shaped board whose USB goes to the chip itself: Serial is a USB CDC endpoint and Serial1 is pins 0 and 1.
The ATmega32U4 with its ten-bit timer, fourteen ADC channels and five external interrupts, at 16 MHz.
Open the board page
ESP32-C6-DevKitC-1
runs now
A second RISC-V board: thirty-one GPIOs, 512 KB of SRAM in one window, UART0, the SYSTIMER, a twelve-bit ADC on GPIO 0 to 6 and LEDC PWM on any pin.
The contract says plainly which addresses come from the manual, which are believed rather than verified, and what is not modeled at all.
Open the board page
ESP32 DevKit V1
runs now
The classic ESP32 on an Xtensa LX6 at 240 MHz: the GPIO matrix, UART0, timer group 0, a twelve-bit ADC1 and the eight LEDC PWM channels, on the real memory map.
One core where the chip has two, no radio and no FPU. Your own sketch compiles in the tab.
Open the board page
ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1
runs now
The ESP32-S3 on an Xtensa LX7 at 240 MHz: GPIO matrix, UART0, USB serial, ADC1, LEDC PWM and the RMT driving the RGB LED, on the real memory map.
One core where the chip has two, no radio and no FPU. Your own sketch compiles in the tab.
Open the board page
ESP8266 NodeMCU V1.0
runs now
The Xtensa LX106 at 80 MHz in the call0 ABI, with D0 to D8 that are not GPIO numbers, two active-low LEDs, and PWM done in software because the chip has none.
WiFi uses a simulated network, with no radio or real internet. The ADC is the one block whose registers are this model’s own, because Espressif never published the chip’s.
Open the board page
Raspberry Pi Pico
runs now
RP2040 on our own ARMv6-M core, with SIO GPIO, the 1 MHz timer and alarms, UART0 and eight PWM slices.
Blink, a button, serial and a fade at real time, with sleep parked on WFI.
Open the board page
Raspberry Pi Pico W
runs now
The same RP2040 and the same forty pins as the Pico, so the same ELF runs on it.
The CYW43439 is not modeled. WiFi uses a simulated network, and the on-board LED is driven through the board runtime rather than GP25.
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Seeed XIAO SAMD21
runs now
A thumbnail-sized Cortex-M0+ at 48 MHz: eleven pads, every one of them an analog input, with PWM on ten of them.
Serial is the chip’s own USB, modeled as a byte pipe with no stack above it, and Serial1 is a real USART on D6 and D7.
Open the board page
BBC micro:bit V2
runs now
The nRF52833 on our own Cortex-M4 core at 64 MHz, with GPIO, GPIOTE, three TIMERs, RTC0 and UARTE0 on the real register map.
The 5x5 LED matrix scanned as the hardware scans it, buttons A and B, the speaker and three rings on the edge connector.
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ATtiny85
runs now
A whole microcontroller in an 8-pin DIP, straight into the breadboard: six I/O, two timers, an ADC and a USI.
Blink, a button on INT0, a knob on the ADC and a serial port it bit-bangs for itself.
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STM32F411 Black Pill
runs now
Cortex-M4 with Thumb-2, NVIC and SysTick at 84 MHz, with GPIO, TIM2 to TIM5 and USART1 on the real register map.
Blink on PC13, a button, serial and a PWM fade, all at real time.
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STM32 Blue Pill (F103)
runs now
Cortex-M3 at 72 MHz, with GPIO on the F1’s CRL and CRH, TIM1 to TIM4, USART1 and a twelve-bit ADC.
Blink on PC13, a button, serial with a live reading, and a PWM fade, all at real time.
Open the board page
Arduino Uno R4 Minima
runs now
Renesas RA4M1, Arm Cortex-M4 at 48 MHz, in an Uno’s shape and on an Uno’s 5 V pins. Modeled: the PFS port block, GPT PWM on the six tilde pins, SCI2 as Serial1 on D0 and D1, and a fourteen-bit ADC that analogRead reads ten bits of.
Not modeled: a USB stack (Serial is a byte pipe with no enumeration behind it), the ICU, so there is no attachInterrupt, and the AGT. The contract says plainly which addresses come from the manual and which are believed rather than verified.
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Arduino Pro Mini
runs now
The Uno’s ATmega328P on the smallest Arduino there is, with no USB on it, in both builds: 5 V at 16 MHz and 3.3 V at 8 MHz.
The 3.3 V board really runs at 8 MHz, so a sketch built for 16 MHz keeps half time on it, as it does on the bench.
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Arduino Micro
runs now
The Leonardo’s ATmega32U4 on a board that pushes into a breadboard, with the L LED on pin 13 and the SPI pins on holes of their own.
Serial is the chip’s own USB and Serial1 is pins 0 and 1, and the Leonardo’s programs run on it unchanged.
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SparkFun Pro Micro
runs now
The ATmega32U4 in a Pro Mini’s footprint with a USB socket on the end, running the Leonardo’s programs.
No LED on pin 13: its lamps are RX and TX, lit by pulling their pins low.
Open the board page
Wemos D1 mini
runs now
The NodeMCU’s ESP8266 on a board a third the size, with the same D0 to D8 names and only the holes that do something.
WiFi on a simulated network, and your own sketch compiles in the tab.
Open the board page
ESP-01S
runs now
An ESP8266 with eight pins, four of them GPIO, and a blue LED that lights when its pin is low.
Wired with jumpers, because its two rows will not sit in a breadboard. WiFi is simulated.
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Seeed XIAO ESP32-C3
runs now
The ESP32-C3 at 160 MHz on the XIAO’s thumbnail outline: fourteen pads, and D0 to D10 that are the XIAO’s numbers, not GPIOs.
No user LED to blink, WiFi on a simulated network, and sketches that compile in the tab.
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ESP32-C3 SuperMini
runs now
The smallest ESP32-C3 board in common use, sixteen pins named by GPIO, at 160 MHz.
Its blue LED on GPIO 8 lights when the pin is LOW, the other way around from the DevKit’s.
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Arduino Uno R4 WiFi
runs now
The Uno R4’s RA4M1 with a 12 x 8 LED matrix to draw on through Arduino_LED_Matrix.h.
WiFi through WiFiS3.h on a simulated network: no radio, no ESP32-S3 in the model, no real internet.
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Try it on your own firmware

What you build here runs on the board on your desk, unchanged. Nothing to install and no account needed.

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