Hardware Sniffers is a MISC-native game that attempts to teach people enough about computer architecture and numbers that they'd have no problem reading memory dumps and recognizing hex patterns at a glance, esp. alignment, pointers, structs, and hex-ASCII conversion. It convers the following learning tracks:
Numbers
Radix
Endian
Width
Magnitude
Shape
Patterns
Strings
Spot
Region
Layout
Heap
After the completion of each of these tracks, the story and some other planned MISC-native games will become available.
This post initializes an array of educational and informational posts about Hardware Sniffers and the MISC architecture in general.
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The first Crosstalk trailer demo board has arrivedThe board mentioned in this post as having been done by the fab has arrived! The conclusion that there are some improvements to be made remains, so this post is just to show a bit more photos.Hardware Sniffers: The DLUWelcome to the next Hardware Sniffers post entry. Today, the topic is the DLU, which stands for the DANGLING Logic Unit , and it is the first CPU of the MISC architecture . The DLU consists of the following parts: · dangalu.sv: the DANGLING Arithmetic Logic Unit · dangdsu.sv: the DANGLING Sound Unit · dangddu.sv: the DANGLING Display Unit (80x25 text mode + a framebuffer mode, which some parts…Dropping old achievements that are no longer achievable at releasePrevious achievements are being removed so that the initial Early Access release state of the game contains only those that can be awarded at that time. They will return once EDA features return.