This project is a rust implementation of a virtual machine for running LC-3 (Little Computer 3), which is a simplified educational assembly language. I am doing this for educational purposes as I am learning more about low level programming for reverse engeneering.

The idea came from this guide, but I followed this other blog on rust.

You need rustc and cargo to run this project. If you use Nix, you can enter the developement environment with:

nix-shell

You can run any LC-3 program with:

cargo run <path>

There are some examples in examples/.

LC-3 uses 16 instructions of 16 bits and has an address space of 2^16.

The instruction set:

Specification