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Features

• Computer Systems Education - Serves as a comprehensive education kit for building a full hardware and software stack from scratch.
• Step-by-Step Tutorials - A step-by-step walkthrough for creating a processor using hardware description languages and simulating its behavior.
• Full-Stack Systems Engineering - Provides a comprehensive framework for building a complete computer system from hardware logic to the final software stack.
• Task Schedulers - Implements a microcontroller operating system that manages concurrent tasks through a custom scheduler.
• Computer Architecture Curricula - Offers an educational kit and implementation exercises focused on processor design and low-level system architecture.
• Control Logic Design - Provides the logic for developing CPU and peripheral controllers using hardware description languages.
• Custom CPU Architecture Design - Enables the design of custom computer architectures from scratch using hardware description languages.
• FPGA Hardware Design - Provides a comprehensive guide for designing synthesizable computer components and controllers for FPGAs.
• HDL Logic Synthesis - Provides instructions for synthesizing computer components and peripheral controllers using hardware description languages for FPGA deployment.
• CPU Architectures - Provides educational resources and logic for creating custom processor architectures for FPGA synthesis.
• Paging and Context Switching - Implements a kernel that manages concurrent execution through state-saving and restoring during context switches.
• Operating System Kernels - Provides a practical guide for building kernels and task-switching systems to manage concurrent processes.
• Operating System Development - Guides the development of complete operating systems, ranging from simple task-switchers to full systems with GUIs.
• Hardware Emulators - Implements software simulators to validate CPU behavior and hardware peripherals without requiring physical equipment.
• Cycle-Accurate Emulators - Implements a cycle-accurate simulation of the processor and peripherals by tracking state changes on every clock tick.
• Processor Emulators - Ships software to simulate processor logic and validate instructions before physical hardware deployment.
• Compiler Toolchain Development - Includes guides for creating a custom compiler and assembler to bootstrap a target architecture from a host system.
• Educational Toolchains - Provides resources for building a unique instruction set architecture with a matching assembler and compiler for educational purposes.
• CPU Emulation Libraries - Simulates processor instruction sets by mapping opcodes to software functions that manipulate virtual registers and memory.
• Language Implementation - Provides a framework for implementing a complete programming language from scratch to target a custom CPU.
• Virtual Hardware Simulators - Creates cycle-accurate models of memory and interface components to facilitate system development without physical hardware.
• FPGA Development Guides - Guides the synthesis of computer components and peripheral controllers for deployment on FPGAs.
• Implementation Courses - Offers a practical framework for learning to build a microcontroller kernel with task switching and memory management.
• Emulated Hardware Debuggers - Includes tools for creating software simulators and debuggers to validate the functionality of the custom CPU.
• Architecture-Specific Generators - Provides a backend that translates abstract syntax trees into machine-specific instructions for a custom CPU architecture.
• Developer Streams - Educational series on building systems from scratch in C and Python.
• Game Development Tutorials - A series on low-level programming and game engine development.

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