805vinnguy/Hack

A 16 bit Hack CPU

The Hack Computer

A Modern Computer on First Principles: From Nand to Tetris.

Nand to Tetris Abstration Layers

Software Hierarchy

1. Human Thought

• Write a program

2. Abstraction
   • High Level Language

• Compiler

3. Abstraction
   • VM Code

• VM Translater

4. Abstraction
   • Low Level Code

• Assembler

Hardware Platform

5. Abstraction
   • Computer Architecture

• Digital Design

6. Abstraction
   • CPU, RAM, chipset

• Gate Logic

7. Abstraction
   • Elementary Logic Gates

• Electrical Engineering