Building an 8-bit CPU Emulator in C++ And Java That Can Run a Program

Understanding Assembly CPU Operations Step-by-Step

Adrian Nenu 😺
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10 min readNov 4, 2023

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To more intuitively understand how the central processing units in our devices function, let’s implement a very basic educational emulator which will simulate what the CPU would be doing in hardware.

CPU representation generated by Midjourney

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