diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/simavr/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/simavr/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..823f93f9ac4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/simavr/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, avrgcclibc, libelf, which, git, pkgconfig, freeglut
+, mesa }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "simavr-${version}";
+  version = "1.3";
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "buserror";
+    repo = "simavr";
+    rev = "51d5fa69f9bc3d62941827faec02f8fbc7e187ab";
+    sha256 = "0k8xwzw9i6xsmf98q43fxhphq0wvflvmzqma1n4jd1ym9wi48lfx";
+  };
+
+  buildFlags = "AVR_ROOT=${avrgcclibc}/avr SIMAVR_VERSION=${version}";
+  installFlags = buildFlags + " DESTDIR=$(out)";
+
+  postFixup = ''
+    target="$out/bin/simavr"
+    patchelf --set-rpath "$(patchelf --print-rpath "$target"):$out/lib" "$target"
+  '';
+
+  buildInputs = [ which git avrgcclibc libelf pkgconfig freeglut mesa ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "A lean and mean Atmel AVR simulator";
+    homepage    = https://github.com/buserror/simavr;
+    license     = licenses.gpl3;
+    platforms   = platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ goodrone ];
+  };
+
+}
+
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 0300fe6e3ee3..9f18e569a647 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -9007,6 +9007,8 @@ in
   silgraphite = callPackage ../development/libraries/silgraphite {};
   graphite2 = callPackage ../development/libraries/silgraphite/graphite2.nix {};
 
+  simavr = callPackage ../development/tools/simavr { };
+
   simgear = callPackage ../development/libraries/simgear { };
 
   simp_le = callPackage ../tools/admin/simp_le { };