Yes... I know that I've put up the V0.4 revision of the Instruction Set just yesterday, but over night, thank you brain, I've mentally gone over a discussion I've read on the Usagi Electric Discord that involved someone else making their own instruction set and emulator. And how they were splitting the opcode from the addressing modes.
With my emulator going strong in its development and me already thinking about the Control Logic and how I want to deal with it... I think that I need another list of operations.
But not a change of heart.
As I am working on The Emulator and thinking back to my initial design for the Basic Register Module, I have come to a realization.
I do not want to solder hundreds of transistors, resistors and diodes... At least not initially.
So... With some of my thoughts going into the direction of writing an assembler for the DWMC-16, and communicating them, someone told me I should maybe write an emulator.
And yes... I decided that I need to write an emulator. And I have decided on a low level microcode and bus based emulator, written in Python.
With my last post being about designing my first Register, and getting a bit deeper into actual hardware, I was missing a few things to go on with my design, namely the Control Signals that I'd need to do work with everything. That meant that, finally, I had to sit down and draw a Block Diagram... It is a relatively simple one that I drew with Draw.io.
