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- Possible BSVC Projects
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-
- Here is a list of possible projects that can be done with BSVC. If you're
- a brave person with some spare time or a senior who needs a project to work
- on think about one of the following. Some of these are very pratical while
- others are a little on the far side.
-
-
- 1) It would be nice to have the following microprocessors simulated:
-
- * Intel 8051
- * Intel 8086
- * Intel 8088
- * Motorola 68HC11
- * Power PC 601
- * MOS 6502 (I've got most of this written just haven't finished it :-)
-
- 2) More devices for example:
-
- * Motorola 6850 UART I've got part of this written but then I found
- out that NCSU had started using the MC68681 :-)
-
- * Motorola 68230 Timer So we can do some multitasking ;-)
-
- * Simple Video Card A simple device that simulates a very simple
- video card. Sould have some wierd bit plane
- modes so student will have to do a lot of
- bit minipulations.
-
- * ROM Really simple to implement. Just like RAM
- execpt it reads in a file when it's created.
-
- * Ethernet Adapter I'm not sure how hard this would be.
-
- * Shared RAM On systems that support shared memory you
- could allocate a RAM moduled that shared from
- one simulator to the next. Then fire up two
- simulators and let the play in the shared memory.
- This is really out there but might be interesting
- to play with.
-
- * Hard disk adapter Uses a file as a hard disk image
-
- 3) 68000 stuff
-
- * See how hard it would be to build GNU C as a cross compiler for the
- M68000. Then add a Loader to the Sim68000 to load the a.out file
- generated by gcc.
-
- * If you get GNU C working then port XINU to the M68000.
-
- 4) Cache simulations
-
- * Get GNU C to work as a cross compiler to one of the microprocessors
- supported by BSVC. Add a Loader to the simulator to load the a.out
- format file generated by gcc.
-
- * Port a C library to the simulator. This should be complete enough to
- allow some UNIX programs to be compiled and ran on the simulator.
-
- * Subclass the AddressSpace object and implement a Cache simulator. Then
- you can use the C programs to benchmark the cache.
-
- * Might also want to get C++ to work then you could study the effects
- of OO on the cache.
-
- * You could also study GC effects on the Cache.
-
- This would be really neat if it worked but I would suggest more
- than one person on this project :-)
-
- 5) BSVC Framework
-
- * Modify the EventHandler to accept file descriptor events, and timed
- file descriptor events. This would eliminate the polling done in the
- M68681 device.
-
- * Clean up the interface class and remove some of the C code in there
-
- 6) Add new feature to the program listing utility
-
- * Highlight lines were breakpoints are set
-
- * Allow breakpoints to be set/unset
-
- There are many others, but it's getting late and I've got to go to work
- tomorrow :-)
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