A network server for emulating CPUs (DCPU 1.7 specifically), and providing API and protocols to support associated hardware emulation, provisioning and management.
- [DCPU 1.7] 1 Emulation, good accuracy and error handling
- Keyboard, LEM, Clock, Mackapar floppy, ROM, IMVA are emulated.
- CPUs and hardware store components of state in isiCPU
- Fairly abstract and portable hardware and CPU interface for emulation.
- Network access to multiple DCPU terminals (Keyboard and Display).
- Multiple DCPUs can be run at once, and can be added at runtime.
- Configurable TCP port
- DCPU disassembly and debugger
- Endian swap option for bin files
- bin files load to a "rom" device
- load estimation and support for multiple CPUs (mostly works)
- single-threaded processes, multiple processes must be run on a server to use more cores.
- (Better) Support for multiple types of CPU emulation
- Support more hardware emulations. (It's close!)
- Add various [new hardware devices] 2
- Provide a network interface to the CPU and associated hardware. (WIP)
- Both hardware and CPUs should each have their own unique ID number. (WIP)
- CPUs and hardware must be able to be added/removed without affecting others. (WIP)
- Runtime add/remove/configure/debug of hardware and CPUs from network API. (WIP
- Emulation layer will provide an API that allows add-on shared libraries.
- Add-on libraries will be able to be loaded during emulation.
- Add CPU [TR3200] 3
- Add CPU [DCPU-16N] 4
- Add CPU [Mira2204] 5
- support clustered networking.
- Multiple processes on the same server will use Unix Domain sockets (or equivilent).
- isiCPU will support both IPv4 and IPv6 using TCP sockets.
- each instance of isiCPU in a cluster will allow migrating emulation state(s) to another server, both for redundancy and load sharing.
- instances will be able to be added and removed dyamically from a cluster.
- isiCPU is written in C, but it should also allow valid C++ compilation.
- The CPU and Hardware API must be in C.
- JIT (if used) may include assembly language that will be called from C.
- optional GPU acceleration features.
- GPU acceleration is an optional feature, all functions must run in C first.
isiCPU was designed for GNU/Linux or compatible BSD systems. The current build method is simple.
make
isiCPU includes a built-in debugger that is enabled with -D on the command line.
Some of these features work with debugging disabled.
- x : exit
- enter : run 1 instruction
- c : continue execution
- bHHHH : toggle break point at HHHH (must be 4 hex char address)
- rHHHH : read memory at HHHH (must be 4 hex char address)
- fnum : run for decimal num of cycles
- t : toggle trace on execute