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Now that ChangeLog entries are no longer used for sim patches, this commit renames all relevant sim ChangeLog to ChangeLog-2021, similar to what we would do in the context of the "Start of New Year" procedure. The purpose of this change is to avoid people merging ChangeLog entries by mistake when applying existing commits that they are currently working on. Also throw in a .gitignore entry to keep people from adding new ChangeLog files anywhere in the sim tree. |
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= OVERVIEW = The Synacor Challenge is a fun programming exercise with a number of puzzles built into it. You can find more details about it here: https://challenge.synacor.com/ The first puzzle is writing an interpreter for their custom ISA. This is a simulator for that custom CPU. The CPU is quite basic: it's 16-bit with only 8 registers and a limited set of instructions. This means the port will never grow new features. See README.arch-spec for more details. Implementing it here ends up being quite useful: it acts as a simple constrained "real world" example for people who want to implement a new simulator for their own architecture. We demonstrate all the basic fundamentals (registers, memory, branches, and tracing) that all ports should have.