The Elements of Computing Systems (Nand2Tetris)

Building a Modern Computer from First Principles By Noam Nisan & Shimon Shocken

This project is to document my journey of creating a computer system from the ground up as I work through the different sections of The Elements of Computing Systems (second edition) book.

Resources:

• Book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/elements-computing-systems-second-edition
• Website: https://www.nand2tetris.org/
• Digital HDL Tools:
  • https://github.com/hneemann/Digital
  • https://github.com/SebLague/Digital-Logic-Sim
• Nand2Tetris VS Code Plugin: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Throvn.nand2tetris

Helper Commands

Sections 1, 2, & 3

• Running the Hardware Simulator
  • sh tools/HardwareSimulator.sh
• Running the Digital HDL project (https://github.com/hneemann/Digital):
  • Clone the repo and build the jar
  • From root of Digital project, build the jar via mvn package
  • Run jar via IntelliJ or from root of Digital project via java -jar target/Digital.jar

Section 4

• Running the CPU Emulator
  • sh tools/CPUEmulator.sh

Section 6

• Running the Assembler
  • sh tools/Assembler.sh
• Running the CPU Emulator
  • sh tools/CPUEmulator.sh

Contents

Hardware

• Boolean Logic
• Boolean Arithmetic
• Memory
• Machine Language
• Computer Architecture
• Assembler

Software

• Virtual Machine I - Processing
• Virtual Machine II - Control
• High-Level Language
• Compiler I - Syntax Analysis
• Compiler II - Code Generation
• Operating System