This is a simple microcode assembler (or microassembler). It can be used to generate wide, horizontal microcode ROMs for relatively simple CPU architectures. Using a description of the microcode, it generates one or more ROM, EPROM, EEPROM, Flash et cetera images suitable for inclusing in a software emulator, a hardware device, or for use in a hardware description language such as Verilog or VHDL.
If you're building complex hardware devices like home-designed CPUs, this may come in handy! Prototyping home-designed CPUs isn't an easy task at all. One might say designing one is difficult, but let's assume you've already done that. State machines and function generation can be a nightmare to debug. Once you've found the bugs, actually fixing them may prove to be even more of a nightmare.
This project aims to bring the power of DungeonSpawn to Python. It originally started as a set of bindings for DungeonMaker, but my own needs steered it away from that and prompted various extensions to the original code.
In the process of making the Python bindings for DungeonMaker, I came across various shortcomings of the original code. There were behaviours I wanted to limit or inhibit, and various features were missing. I went about implementing some of these, and code started accumulating. I eventually made the decision to fork the original source tree, and thus was born DungeonSpawn: a version of DungeonMaker with extensions.
