[HN Gopher] 8086 Microcode Browser
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8086 Microcode Browser
Author : zdw
Score : 141 points
Date : 2025-12-03 21:16 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (nand2mario.github.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (nand2mario.github.io)
| djmips wrote:
| It would be fun to step through some 8086 code at the microcode
| level.
| ajenner wrote:
| I wrote a program called xtce-trace
| (https://www.reenigne.org/software/xtce_trace.zip ) to do just
| this (albeit non-interactively - you just give it a program and
| it will generate a cycle-by-cycle trace of which lines of
| microcode are executed). GloriousCow aka Daniel Balsom recently
| fixed some of its bugs and turned it into an actual emulator
| (https://github.com/dbalsom/XTCE-Blue ), though it's not
| finished yet so there's no binary release at the moment.
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