A microprogramming teaching environment using the Macintosh computer

Authors:
E. Sanchez
Affiliations:
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Logic Systems Laboratory, 1015 Lausanne - Switzerland
Venue:
MICRO 22 Proceedings of the 22nd annual workshop on Microprogramming and microarchitecture
Year:
1989

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Abstract

A microprogramming teaching environment is presented. It is composed of a hardware part (a 16 bit microprogrammable processor) and a software part, running on a Macintosh II computer.The software includes 6 modules: two microassemblers - one uses a classical approach to generate microcode from a description in a register transfer language and the other one, which is more unusual, is menu-driven -; a disassembler; a monitor allowing one to display and modify the processor resources, as well as to control the execution; a memory loader and a simulator.The interactive and convivial nature of the Macintosh computer, and especially the HyperCard application, are used thoroughly in order to facilitate a utilization of the system.