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Build Your Own Custom Chips
in C, Rust or AssemblyScript

Define your own integrated circuits with the Wokwi-compatible Custom Chips API. Write the chip in C, Rust, or AssemblyScript; Velxio compiles it to WebAssembly and runs it on the canvas like any other component — driven by Arduino, ESP32, or RP2040 firmware.

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Wokwi-compatible API · Free & open-source · WASM-powered, runs in your browser

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What can you build?

Custom chips fill the gaps between built-in components. If a real IC isn't on the shelf, build a behavioural model and your firmware never knows the difference.

Sensor stand-ins

Mock a temperature, pressure, or IMU sensor that responds over I²C — useful when you don't have the part yet but want to develop the firmware.

Protocol bridges

Build a UART-to-I²C bridge, an SPI shift register, a digital-to-analog wrapper, or a custom level translator.

Custom logic

Glue logic, state machines, address decoders, debouncers — anything you'd otherwise wire up with discrete gates.

Behavioural ICs

Re-create the externally-visible behaviour of a real IC (a 7-segment driver, a stepper controller) without simulating its analog internals.

Test fixtures

Inject signals on schedule, capture pin transitions, validate firmware against expected pin-level behaviour.

Reusable libraries

Save the chip to your account, import it into other projects, share with the community.

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What the API gives you

The Velxio Custom Chips runtime is fully Wokwi-compatible, with extras for the SPICE and multi-board environment.

Pin I/O

Read pin state, write digital high/low, configure pull-ups, react to edges with pin-watch callbacks.

Attributes

Read user-configurable chip attributes from the property panel — values, strings, numbers — and re-read on change.

Timers

Schedule callbacks at microsecond resolution. The runtime fires them aligned to the simulator clock.

I²C bus

Connect to any wire that's part of an I²C bus, respond to start/stop conditions, acknowledge addresses, send / receive bytes.

SPI bus

Bidirectional SPI with chip-select handling. Implement a shift register, an SPI memory, or a sensor with one byte-stream callback.

WASI shim

A small WASI shim lets your C/Rust chip use standard-library calls (printf, string ops, math) without a heavy runtime.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Build your first custom chip

Open the editor and create a chip in seconds — pick C, Rust, or AssemblyScript.

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