The Essentials of Computer Organization And Architecture
The Essentials of Computer Organization And Architecture
WCAE '07 Proceedings of the 2007 workshop on Computer architecture education
Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface
Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface
Step-by-step design and simulation of a simple CPU architecture
Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
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In our computer architecture class, we researched logic simulators for design of educational computers. We have regularly had students design, create and operate a simulated computer as part of this course. This has allowed students to understand the internal details of instruction decoding and data path control. In the past we have used Multimedia Logic (MML). MML is open source and free and it has an attractive user interface. However, a number of improvements have been made to Logisim and we felt a re-evaluation was appropriate. The machine we chose to build was Linda Null's sixteen bit MARIE computer. We implemented this computer in Multimedia Logic, Logisim, Cedar Logic and CPU Sim. The implementation in CPU Sim allowed us to add and test additional instructions to the MARIE instruction set and to use CPU Sim as an assembler for our other designs. This paper compares student designs and discusses the pedagogical value and ease of implementation of these designs.