# chips

**Repository Path**: mirrors_floooh/chips

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: chips
- **Description**: 8-bit chip and system emulators in standalone C headers
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Zlib
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2022-01-06
- **Last Updated**: 2026-03-01

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## README

# chips

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A toolbox of 8-bit chip-emulators, helper code and complete embeddable
system emulators in dependency-free C headers (a subset of C99 that
compiles on gcc, clang and cl.exe).

Tests and example code is in a separate repo: https://github.com/floooh/chips-test

The example emulators, compiled to WebAssembly: https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/

For schematics, manuals and research material, see: https://github.com/floooh/emu-info

The USP of the chip emulators is that they communicate with the outside world through
a 'pin bit mask': A 'tick' function takes an uint64_t as input where the bits
represent the chip's in/out pins, the tick function inspects the pin
bits, computes one tick, and returns a (potentially modified) pin bit mask.

A complete emulated computer then more or less just wires those chip emulators
together just like on a breadboard.

In reality, most emulators are not quite as 'pure' (as this would affect performance
too much or complicate the emulation): some chip emulators have a small number
of callback functions and the adress decoding in the system emulators often
take shortcuts instead of simulating the actual address decoding chips
(with one exception: the lc80 emulator).