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| | ...and the crucial role it plays in modern operating systems.
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| | My notes on "Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces" - part 1, Virtualization
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| | In the previous post we saw how the memory management unit (MMU) uses page tables to translate virtual addresses into physical ones. We will now consider the various features that such a translation enables in an operating system. In the discussion below, it is important to remember that the granularity of translation is a single...
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| CHIP-8 is one of the most popular target architectures for aspiring emulator writers. I'm planning to implement it in hardware, so I thought that writing a software emulator/interpreter would be enlightening. I was also looking for some practice before implementing CHIP-8 in hardware in Verilog :) CHIP-8 Virtual machine description: 64x32 pixel monochrome display 4K of 8-bit RAM 16 8-bit "variable" registers V0-VF I 16-bit address register Stack of 16-bit addresses for call/return 16-bit PC - program counter 8-bit delay timer (decremented at 60 Hz) until it reaches 0 8-bit sound timer (decremented at 60 Hz), beeps when it reaches 0 16- key keypad that sends scan codes 0x1-0xF Instruction set See https://en.