Journal on Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC)
Teaching computer organization/architecture with limited resources using simulators
SIGCSE '02 Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
MiniMIPS: a simulation project for the computer architecture laboratory
SIGCSE '03 Proceedings of the 34th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
WinDLX and MIPSim Pipeline Simulators for Teaching Computer Architecture
ECBS '96 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium and Workshop on Engineering of Computer Based Systems
Teaching basics of instruction pipelining with HDLDLX
WCAE '04 Proceedings of the 2004 workshop on Computer architecture education: held in conjunction with the 31st International Symposium on Computer Architecture
WebMIPS: a new web-based MIPS simulation environment for computer architecture education
WCAE '04 Proceedings of the 2004 workshop on Computer architecture education: held in conjunction with the 31st International Symposium on Computer Architecture
Build an operating system from scratch: a project for an introductory operating systems course
Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
p88110: A Graphical Simulator for Computer Architecture and Organization Courses
IEEE Transactions on Education
Teaching computer architecture with a graphical PC simulator
Proceedings of the 16th annual joint conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
A hardware simulator for teaching CPU design
Proceedings of the 17th ACM annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Proceedings of the 12th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research
Emumaker86: a hardware simulator for teaching CPU design
Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Green16: a frugal CPU architecture
Proceedings of the South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference
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This paper describes a new graphical computer simulator developed for computer organization students. Unlike other teaching simulators, our simulator faithfully models a complete personal computer, including an i386 processor, physical memory, I/O ports, floppy and hard disks, interrupts, timers, and a serial port. It is capable of running PC software such as FreeDOS, Windows, and Minix, and can run as a Java applet. Graphical user interfaces allow students to view and modify the processor, memory, disks, and hardware devices at runtime. The simulator includes a processor development utility that allows students to design their own datapath and control units, and run their custom processor alongside the x86 processor. The paper describes labs where students use the simulator to write x86 assembly programs, device drivers, hardware controllers; and design both simple and pipelined processors.