Title :
An implementation scheme for a microprocessor emulator
Author :
Zaatar, W. ; Nasr, George E.
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Comput. Eng., Lebanese American Univ., Byblos, Lebanon
Abstract :
In this paper a general method for defining a microprocessor emulator, applicable in any high level programming language, is presented. A complete set of communication rules is defined to describe all calls between different modules of the emulation software. The construction methodology used allows easy modifications in the emulator structure to fit different processors. Although most analysis is written in pseudocode, an actual implementation is done in Visual BASIC. In addition, the proposed emulator is implemented and compared to standard emulators while running a typical execution sequence
Keywords :
BASIC; circuit CAD; circuit simulation; integrated circuit design; microprocessor chips; Visual BASIC; emulation software; emulator structure; high level programming language; microprocessor emulator; standard emulators; Application software; Assembly; Computational modeling; Computer languages; Counting circuits; Emulation; Hardware; Microprocessors; Registers; Visual BASIC;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2000. ICECS 2000. The 7th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Jounieh
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6542-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICECS.2000.911510
