VisUAL, a highly visual ARM emulator

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Post by dgellow » Thu, Dec 24, 2015, 5:25 AM UTC

VisUAL, a highly visual ARM emulator
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Re: VisUAL, a highly visual ARM emulator

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Post by ubercow » Fri, Dec 25, 2015, 9:50 AM UTC

I was literally just looking for something like this the other day. Amazing timing. Thanks OP!

Re: VisUAL, a highly visual ARM emulator

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Post by cricketer9923 » Fri, Dec 25, 2015, 9:51 AM UTC

wow this is gorgeous, it looks like it performs a function similar to http://www.easy68k.com/

Re: VisUAL, a highly visual ARM emulator

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Post by OJFord » Fri, Dec 25, 2015, 10:03 AM UTC

I was reading through thinking "gah, wish I'd had something like that when I took Into to Comp Arch [with ARM] ... I should link it on the department facebook group or something" when what do you know:

    > It has been designed specifically to use as a teaching
    > tool for the Introduction to Computer Architecture
    > course taught at the Department of Electrical and
    > Electronic Engineering of Imperial College London.

Someone else clearly thought it would be useful without (like me) having to see the finished product first!

Re: VisUAL, a highly visual ARM emulator

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Post by dgellow » Fri, Dec 25, 2015, 10:41 AM UTC

ubercow wrote: post #2

I was literally just looking for something like this the other day. Amazing timing. Thanks OP!

I found it thanks to Karsten Schmidt aka @toxi ;-) https://twitter.com/toxi/status/679826201502978048

Re: VisUAL, a highly visual ARM emulator

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Post by dgellow » Fri, Dec 25, 2015, 10:43 AM UTC

cricketer9923 wrote: post #3

wow this is gorgeous, it looks like it performs a function similar to http://www.easy68k.com/

Interesting. Thank you for sharing.

Do you know a similar tool for Linux or OS X?

Edit:

Not optimal but it works great on OS X with Wine (v1.6.2 installed via homebrew). Screenshot as a proof http://i.imgur.com/qCwKhXv.png

Re: VisUAL, a highly visual ARM emulator

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Post by preya2k » Fri, Dec 25, 2015, 11:13 AM UTC

Wish I had this for my CE Assembler classes during first semester. Wonderful tool.

Re: VisUAL, a highly visual ARM emulator

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Post by zodiac » Fri, Dec 25, 2015, 1:29 PM UTC

I'm working on a similar web-based emulator for the version of MIPS my school uses (UWaterloo, CS 241). We have to build parts of a compiler for the course and I was sick of hand-simulating my compiler's output to look for bugs.

https://github.com/zodiac/yamd http://readdit.xuanji.li:8000/

Re: VisUAL, a highly visual ARM emulator

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Post by risos » Fri, Dec 25, 2015, 1:41 PM UTC

zodiac wrote: post #8

I'm working on a similar web-based emulator for the version of MIPS my school uses (UWaterloo, CS 241). We have to build parts of a compiler for the course and I was sick of hand-simulating my compiler's output to look for bugs. https://github.com/zodiac/yamd http://readdit.xuanji.li:8000/

If you can make a really nice MIPS emulator, that would be awesome. I had to learn MIPS for a programming unit I did in my first year of university. We had to use the MARS emulator which is a not particularly good MIPS emulator in java.

A well made and nice looking MIPS emulator would be awesome.

Re: VisUAL, a highly visual ARM emulator

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Post by unbelievr » Fri, Dec 25, 2015, 1:44 PM UTC

Does this support the thumb (2) instruction set as well, or only ARM mode? We are primarily using ARM on Cortex M-devices that only run in thumb mode, but something like this tool would be very valuable for learning!