$($Getting your feet wet with some background info, valuable info regarding the project starts on page $5)$ A CPU can be thought of as a complex, programmable state machine beast that can perform operations according to a set of instructions that have been stored in some memory. Modern CPUs are $*$very$*$ difficult to understand or try to reverse$-$engineer because of the stack$-$design method needed for backwards compatibility with older generations as well as the protection around certain manufacturing companies$$ intellectual properties $($IP$)$ for the likes of AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, ARM, etc.. Although this incremental development over the years have caused the hardware architecture to become cluttered and confusing, at their hearts, processors still go through the same process of performing a $$fetch$-$decode$-$execute$$ cycle. The processor retrieves an instruction from memory, decodes the instruction to determine what actions need to be performed, performs the necessary actions, and then begins retrieving the next instru