Programming a toy computer from scratch

Eric Bruneton, 2024

This page provides supplementary material for the book "Programming a toy computer from scratch". In particular, it provides more instructions for assembling your toy computer and to use its emulator.

Part 1

• Chapter 1. Binary Numbers
• Chapter 2. Logic Gates and Arithmetic Circuits
• Chapter 3. Register and Memory Circuits
• Chapter 4. Control Circuits
• Chapter 5. A Toy Microprocessor

Part 2

• Chapter 6. First Steps with Arduino Due
• Chapter 7. First Steps with the Cortex M3
• Chapter 8. Virtual Machine
• Chapter 9. Clock Driver
• Chapter 10. Graphics Card Driver
• Chapter 11. Keyboard Driver
• Chapter 12. Memory Editor

Part 3

• Chapter 13. Flash Memory Driver
• Chapter 14. Text Editor
• Chapter 15. Opcodes Compiler
• Chapter 16. Labels Compiler
• Chapter 17. Expressions Compiler
• Chapter 18. Statements Compiler
• Chapter 19. Types Compiler
• Chapter 20. Native Compiler

Part 4

• Chapter 21. File System
• Chapter 22. Boot Loader and Drivers
• Chapter 23. Processes and System Calls
• Chapter 24. Streams
• Chapter 25. Shell, Text Editor, and Compiler
• Chapter 26. Memory Protection
• Chapter 27. Utilities
• Chapter 28. Snake Game