- Ever wanted to design your own processor architecture or play around with an existing one?
- Ever wondered how the computer really thinks and does it's job?
- Did you perhaps wish one day to make your own operating system or a programming language?
- Maybe you even tried to understand how does the compiler actually work, but couldn't because it was way too complex?
Don't loose hope and look no further! - UCLE is meant to answer all of that.
The idea of UCLE is precisely this - to allow you, whoever you might be (a student, a programmer, a computer engineer, a professor, or just someone interested in computers), to understand and experience first-hand the depths of how it all works together inside of a computer:
- the processor, IO devices and other hardware components
- the operating system with all it's features and modules
- programming languages, algorithms and data structures
- the compiler, assembler, linker and loader
- communication protocols
- disk filesystems
- multimedia algorithms
and many, many more.
It is meant to show you all these things in action and with lots of details, but also to allow you to experiment with them, to change and extend some/all of the components, or even design whole new systems in a way you see most appropriate for your purposes, be it learning, teaching, prototyping, or just plain old fun.
List all the features you'd like to have one day
UCLE project uses SCons build tool for building all it's C++-based components. SCons requires a Python runtime, and can be installed via Python-pip, using the following command:
pip install scons --wheel
(wheel flag is currently neccessary because installation without it encounters some errors).
Once SCons is installed, this repository should be cloned with
git clone https://github.com/zjurelinac/UCLE.git
(or it can be downloaded it as zip and then extracted).
Once you have the repository, go to ucle folder and run scons, and wait for the project to build.
UCLE project offers you several CLI tools for various use-cases.
Fnsim, a functional processor simulator, is one of them. It can be used for debugging and/or assembly code correctness testing, for any of the supported processor architectures (so far only FRISC). It can be started with
./build/core/debug/fnsim-cli PROC_ARCH PFILE_PATH [-ijrx] [check CHECKS...]
and it supports various modes of simulation execution.
Explain which components make up the UCLE
Say how far the implementation has come
None yet.