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Table of Contents

Disclaimer

Foward

General information about emulation
What is an Emulator?
Why create an emulator?
How has emulation been used so far?

Where to Start

Emulating the CPU
How the CPU works
The control Unit
The arithmetic/logic unit
Processing an OpCode
Decoding an OpCode
Methods of CPU emulation
CPU Core
Initialise registers
While CPU is running
Load OpCode Data
Translate OpCode
Execute OpCode

Memory
Registers
Cache
Main Memory
Memory Map
Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB)
Endian

System Tasks
Timer
Cyclic Tasks
Interrupts and exceptions

High/low level emulation

Further Reading