Also inaccurate: in their slide deck, they call out that what they've done is "more like a simulation than an emulation," and that this approach reduced the amount of code the had tow write, if their graphs are meaningful, by something like an order of magnitude.
I feel less bad for being slightly off-topic! Though I've always thought of emulation as a category of simulation: perhaps my thinking here is borked. self break. On Jan 7, 2011, at 11:06 AM, Casey Ransberger <[email protected]> wrote: > Inaccuracy: not X-rays. They decapitated the chip with hot sulfuric acid and > took the photos using a couple of Nikon microscopes. > > On Jan 7, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Casey Ransberger <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> This is kind of cool. They took a 6502, X-rayed it, vectorized the >> photographs, and then used polygon intersection to implement an emulator in >> JavaScript. I haven't hears of anyone doing anything like that before. Made >> me think of the FONC TCP/IP bootstrap in it's surprising straightforwardness >> and unorthodoxy. >> >> Also, it seems to suggest a "polygonal language," which is interesting to >> me. >> >> You can watch a color coded image of the processor doing it's thing and even >> step through code, right in your browser. I really think this could be a fun >> way to teach kids about microprocessors. >> >> Thought I'd share, hopefully this is interesting to folks:) >> >> http://www.visual6502.org _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
