https://github.com/rep-movsd/9d

Complete software suite for the nand2tetris MOOC course
https://github.com/rep-movsd/9d

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Complete software suite for the nand2tetris MOOC course

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rep-movsd/9d
• Owner: rep-movsd
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2017-08-02T08:30:42.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-02-10T12:49:08.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-11T04:21:35.409Z (2 months ago)
• Language: C++
• Size: 34.2 KB
• Stars: 20
• Watchers: 11
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 5
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# 9d

Complete software suite for the [nand2tetris](http://nand2tetris.org/) [MOOC](https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer) course

### Intro

The nand2tetris MOOC is a challenging course that teaches how to build a computer from ground up, using logic gates all the way upto the software stack, including a compiler and a rudimentary OS.

The course is quite old, and the software tools that they provide feel a bit dated. We aim to build an alternative suite that will help students of this course.

Beyond the course itself, it can serve as a playground to test various ideas for programming languages, CPU architecture etc. within the limits of the course tooling specifications.

### Features

nand2tetris has several tools:

 * A digital logic designer based on a hardware description language (called HDL) that lets you wire together gates and simulate them

 * A cpu simulator for the HACK CPU that runs machine code

 * A VM emulator that executes the JACK VM bytecode

 * A HACK platform simulator, that simulates an entire computer including a keyboard and a display

 

We will attempt to build a complete IDE/Debugger/runtime that wraps all of these 

Several ideas to implement:

 * Graphical display of HDL circuits, and ability to visually design them (two way visual design)

 * HACK assembler/emulator with reversible debugging, breakpoints, watches etc.

 * JACK language IDE, with syntactic/semantic highlighting, plugin architecture for new language features

 * JACK VM emulator with reversible debugging etc.

 * HACK machine emulation with plugin architecture for custom devices

 * Generic compiled plugins for handling other experimental CPU architectures and machine code

 * JACK VM to native x86 compilation