🍪 CHIP ATE

🤔 What?

CHIP ATE is a CHIP-8 Emulator implemented on both PC using SDL2 and STM32 with a custom PCB!

🤨 Why?

This was supposed to be my first step into console emulation, but then it became that for PCB design as well!

Features

• Portable Emulator Core:
  Implements the timers, memory, and CPU as per the official CHIP-8 spec, including all 34 instructions

• Platform Abstraction Layer:
  Able to run on either PC or STM32 using a platform-agnostic API layer

• Custom PCB:
  Assembled on a STM32-based board with an OLED screen, keypad, a buzzer, and power regulation

• ROM Menu:
  Provides seamless loading in and out of the ROM catalog

Diagrams

System Architecture

Schematic

Routing and 3D Renders

📸 STM32 Demos

Demo Video (click it!)

Tetris

Tic-Tac-Toe

Pong

📸 PC Demos

Demo Video (click it!)

Startup Screen

Menu

Opcode Test

Resources

• Guide to Making a CHIP-8 Emulator by Tobias V. Langhoff
• Building a CHIP-8 Emulator in C++ by Austin Morlan
• chip8stm32 Repo by AlfonsoJLuna
• KiCad Tutorial Playlist by Shawn Hymel
• KiCad 7 PCB Layout in 5 Steps by The Design Graveyard