MARS: an education-oriented MIPS assembly language simulator

Authors:
Kenneth Vollmar;Pete Sanderson
Affiliations:
Missouri State University, Springfield, MO;Otterbein College, Westerville, OH
Venue:
Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Year:
2006

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Abstract

We describe the implementation of "MARS," a GUI, Java-based simulator for the MIPS assembly language. MIPS, the computer architecture underlying the simulated assembly language, is widely used in industry and is the basis of the popular textbook Computer Organization and Design [6], used at over 400 universities. The MARS simulator has been implemented with characteristics that are especially useful to undergraduate computer science students and their instructors.