# Are simulation tools available or planned?

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**Category:** General\
**Created:** [October 25, 2017, 10:11am UTC](https://forums.sifive.com/t/are-simulation-tools-available-or-planned/832 "2017-10-25T10:11:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gimme5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/278dde/32.png) [@Gimme5](https://forums.sifive.com/u/Gimme5)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2017, 10:11am UTC](https://forums.sifive.com/t/are-simulation-tools-available-or-planned/832/1 "2017-10-25T10:11:45Z")

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Hi,

are simulation tools available or planned ?  
I use them in Code Warrior, and they are very convenient to look into the registers, memory state etc.

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**Author:** ![DrewatSiFive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58f4c7/32.png) [@DrewatSiFive](https://forums.sifive.com/u/DrewatSiFive)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2017, 2:49pm UTC](https://forums.sifive.com/t/are-simulation-tools-available-or-planned/832/2 "2017-10-25T14:49:21Z")

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Thanks for your feedback, and we agree that simulators can be very very useful. We are indeed looking into incorporating QEMU into Freedom Studio to provide easy to use simulation targets.

We have a lot of work to do in order to make the user experience great. Until then, you can follow both the RISC-V QEMU and RISC-V Spike projects via the links below:

> **[riscv/riscv-qemu](https://github.com/riscv/riscv-qemu)**
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> QEMU with RISC-V (RV64G, RV32G) Emulation Support. Contribute to riscv/riscv-qemu development by creating an account on GitHub.

  

> **[riscv/riscv-isa-sim](https://github.com/riscv/riscv-isa-sim)**
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> Spike, a RISC-V ISA Simulator. Contribute to riscv/riscv-isa-sim development by creating an account on GitHub.

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**Author:** ![Gimme5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/278dde/32.png) [@Gimme5](https://forums.sifive.com/u/Gimme5)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2017, 8:19pm UTC](https://forums.sifive.com/t/are-simulation-tools-available-or-planned/832/3 "2017-10-25T20:19:19Z")

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Ok, thanks for your answers.

I hope the visual debugging will be available soon if you want to penetrate the education world.