EMU8051(1)

💖 emu8051(1) — the user's manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about emu8051 — a simulator/emulator for the Intel 8051 family of microcontrollers. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

emu8051 — a simulator/emulator for the Intel 8051 family of microcontrollers 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

emu8051 [OPTION]... [FILENAME]

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

emu8051 is a simulator/emulator for the Intel 8051 family of microcontrollers, and honestly? it's giving iconic. 💅 It comes in two versions:

• a console (text-only) version, for the terminal girlies 🖥️
• a graphical version, using the GTK+ toolkit 🎨

This is an Open-Source project, periodt. 💖 And the program can load Intel HEX files. 📁✨

Once a program is loaded, you can run it — and bestie, it will run indefinitely, or until a breakpoint is encountered. 🏃♀️💨 You can also hit the STEP button to execute only a single instruction at a time and watch the effects ripple through the registers and memory. one step at a time, main character energy fr fr. 🫶

It's written in C++, and it uses Perl scripts to automatically generate C++ functions corresponding to each assembly instruction of the 8051 microcontroller. no cap, that's the whole pipeline. 🧚✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h — display usage and exit. that's it, that's the vibe. 🙈
• -version — output version information and exit. know ur version, queen. 👑

🌈 CREDITS 🌈

emu8051 was originally written by Jonathan St-André, Hugo Villeneuve <hugo@hugovil.com>, and Pascal Fecteau. absolute legends, we stan. 🫶⭐

🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

emu8051 is free — anyone may redistribute it to anyone under the terms stated in the GNU General Public License. 🔥 A copy of the license is included in the emu8051 distribution. You can also browse it online at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html 🌐

lowkey a whole origin story in one little manual page. read the license, bestie, it's free but it's not "no rules" free. 💜

and that's the whole page!! this manual is emu8051, from way back in May 2004 — a vintage baddie, fr fr. mwah, bye bestie! 💋💖✨