Tool to Support Computer Architecture Teaching and Learning

• Tipo: Artigo em Livro de Atas de Conferência Internacional
• Data: 2013

Autores

Bruno Nova (Autor) FEUP; João C. Ferreira (Autor) FEUP; António J. Araújo (Autor) FEUP

Ata de Conferência Internacional

Título: CISPEE 2013: 1st International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education

Páginas: 1-8

CISPEE 2013: 1st International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education

Porto, 31 de outubro e 1 de novembro de 2013

Indexação

ISI Web of Knowledge - 5 Citações

Scopus - 18 Citações

Classificação Científica

FOS: Ciências da engenharia e tecnologias > Engenharia electrotécnica, electrónica e informática

CORDIS: Ciências Tecnológicas > Engenharia > Engenharia de computadores

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: P-009-4VC

DOI: 10.1109/cispee.2013.6701965

Abstract (EN): Computer architecture is an important subject for informatics and electrical engineering courses. However, students display some difficulties in this subject, mainly due to the lack of educational tools that are intuitive, versatile and graphical. Existing tools are not adequate enough or are very specific. In this paper, an educational MIPS simulator, DrMIPS, is described. This tool simulates the execution of an assembly program on the CPU and displays the datapath graphically. Registers, data memory and assembled code are also displayed and a "performance mode" is also provided. Both unicycle and pipeline implementations are supported and the CPUs and their instruction sets are configurable. The tool is currently available for PCs and Android tablets, and is fairly intuitive and versatile on both platforms.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 8