A simple assembler for the Hack Platform, written in Rust.
I have implemented this assembler based on the book The Elements of Computing Systems by Noam Nisam and Shimon Schocken.
It translates Hack Assembly (mnemonics) into Binary machine code for the Hack computer.
The Hack Assembler provides the facility to translate Hack Assembly to Binary representation. This binary representation is understood by the Hack Hardware platform.
The Hack computer is a Von Neumann platform. It is a 16-bit machine, consisting of a CPU, two separate memory modules serving as instruction memory and data memory, and two memory-mapped I/O devices (screen and keyboard).
The Hack computer platform is fully documented in the book The Elements of Computing Systems by Noam Nisam and Shimon Schocken and its companion website that contains resources for the associated course, projects and supporting software. The goal of the authors is to guide the reader through the construction of a computer from the ground up, going from Boolean principles to a fully functional Tetris game.
Since the program is provided as source, you will need to compile it to your target platform. Therefore, you need to have a fully working installation of Rust. Once it is compiled, you can run it from the command prompt without the need to install it. See the next section for usage instruction.
The Hack assembler reads as input a text file named <name_of_prog>.asm containing a Hack assembly program, and outputs a text file named <name_of_prog>.hack, containing the translated Hack machine code.
The input file is supplied to the assembler program as a command line argument
prompt> assembler [PATH_TO_ASM_FILE]
Please see the file called LICENSE.