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Feb 24, 2022 · Fundamentals

Build Your Own LC‑3 Virtual Machine in C – A Complete Step‑by‑Step Guide

This tutorial walks you through creating a small LC‑3 virtual machine in C, covering the underlying architecture, memory and register modeling, instruction decoding, implementation of key opcodes such as ADD and LDI, trap routines, program loading, and platform‑specific details, all with full source code examples.