A virtual machine that interprets custom bytecode to control a wifi led strip
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README.md

LED Strip VM

A virtual machine for controlling a wifi led strip.

The assemblerish language and bytecode

Instructions

assy meaning bc
exit <rg> exists the program with exit code <rg> 0x01
set <byte> <rg> sets the register rg to the static value <byte> 0x02
copy <rg> <rg> copies the value of register a into register b 0x03
load (rgp, rgd) loads the value the pointer register points to into the data register 0x04
clear <rg> clears a register (sets it to 0x00) 0x05
write (rgd, rgp) writes the value in the data register to the address of the pointer register 0x06
label <u32> creates a label at the current position. 0x07
goto (rgl) goes to the label with name rgl 0x08
debug (*) prints out the state for debug information 0x09
print <rg> prints the value of a register 0x0A
add (rgd, rgi, rgo) adds the value of rgi to the value of rgd and writes the result into rgo 0x10
sub (rgd, rgi, rgo) substracts rgi from rgd and writes the result into rgo 0x11
mul (rgd, rgi, rgo) multiplies rgd by rgi and writes the result to rgo 0x12
div (rgd, rgi, rgo) divides rgd by rgi and writes the result to rgo 0x13
mod (rgd, rgi, rgo) applies mod rgd, rgi and writes the result to rgo 0x14
lsh (rgd, rgi, rgo) bitshifts rgd by rgi to the left and writes the output to rgo 0x15
rsh (rgd, rgi,rgo) bitshifts rgd by rgi to the right and writes the output to rgo 0x16
jg (rgd, rgi, rgl) jumps to rgl if rgd > rgi 0x20
jl (rgd, rgi, rgl) jumps to rgl if rgd < rgi 0x21
je (rgd, rgi, rgl) jumps to rgl if rgd == rgi 0x22
pause (rgd) pauses for rgd milliseconds 0xF0
cmd (rgd) executes the command in rgd 0xF1
send (rcr, rcg, rcb) sends the values stored in the color registers to the strip 0xF2

Registers

register type size number
rcs state register 1 bit 0x01
rcr red value 1 byte 0x02
rcg green value 1 byte 0x03
rcb blue value 1 byte 0x04
rgd data 4 bytes 0x05
rgp pointer 4 bytes 0x06
rgi input 4 bytes 0x07
rgo output 4 bytes 0x08
rgl label 4 bytes 0x09
  • changing the state register results in turning the strip on/off
  • the rcr, rcg and rcb registers store the rgb value of the strip
  • the rgd register is the default register for storing data
  • the rgp register stores a pointer to "memory" space
  • the rgi register stores the input for operations that require two input values
  • the rgo register stores the result of operations
  • the rgl register stores as label name that can be jumped to
  • comments start with #

The Runtime

The runtime works in three stages.

  1. Connect to the led strip
  2. Parse the bytecode into a vector of tokens
    • if the instruction creates a label, add the label to the map of labels
  3. Execute the token vector