diff --git a/arch/sim/src/Makefile b/arch/sim/src/Makefile
index 66c6219ddc..58355c578f 100644
--- a/arch/sim/src/Makefile
+++ b/arch/sim/src/Makefile
@@ -156,10 +156,6 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_FS_FAT),y)
   STDLIBS += -lz
 endif
 
-ifeq ($(CONFIG_ARCH_ROMGETC),y)
-  CSRCS += sim_romgetc.c
-endif
-
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_SIM_NETDEV_TAP),y)
   CSRCS += sim_netdriver.c
 ifneq ($(CONFIG_WINDOWS_CYGWIN),y)
diff --git a/arch/sim/src/sim/sim_romgetc.c b/arch/sim/src/sim/sim_romgetc.c
deleted file mode 100644
index b3ef30cc98..0000000000
--- a/arch/sim/src/sim/sim_romgetc.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,71 +0,0 @@
-/****************************************************************************
- * arch/sim/src/sim/sim_romgetc.c
- *
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.  The
- * ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the
- * License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
- * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.  See the
- * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- *
- ****************************************************************************/
-
-/****************************************************************************
- * Included Files
- ****************************************************************************/
-
-#include <nuttx/config.h>
-
-#include <nuttx/arch.h>
-
-/****************************************************************************
- * Public Functions
- ****************************************************************************/
-
-/****************************************************************************
- * Name: up_romgetc
- *
- * Description:
- *   In Harvard architectures, data accesses and instruction accesses occur
- *   on different buses, perhaps concurrently.  All data accesses are
- *   performed on the data bus unless special  machine instructions are
- *   used to read data from the instruction address space.  Also, in the
- *   typical MCU, the available SRAM data memory is much smaller that the
- *   non-volatile FLASH instruction memory.  So if the application requires
- *   many constant strings, the only practical solution may be to store
- *   those constant strings in FLASH memory where they can only be accessed
- *   using architecture-specific machine instructions.
- *
- *   A similar case is where strings are retained in "external" memory such
- *   as EEPROM or serial FLASH.  This case is similar only in that again
- *   special operations are required to obtain the string data; it cannot
- *   be accessed directly from a string pointer.
- *
- *   If CONFIG_ARCH_ROMGETC is defined, then the architecture logic must
- *   export the function up_romgetc().  up_romgetc() will simply read one
- *   byte of data from the instruction space.
- *
- *   If CONFIG_ARCH_ROMGETC, certain C stdio functions are effected: (1)
- *   All format strings in printf, fprintf, sprintf, etc. are assumed to
- *   lie in FLASH (string arguments for %s are still assumed to reside in
- *   SRAM). And (2), the string argument to puts and fputs is assumed to
- *   reside in FLASH.  Clearly, these assumptions may have to modified for
- *   the particular needs of your environment.  There is no
- *   "one-size-fits-all" solution for this problem.
- *
- ****************************************************************************/
-
-char up_romgetc(const char *ptr)
-{
-  /* This is basically a No-Op if enabled in the simulation environment */
-
-  return *ptr;
-}