A rudimentary machine: experiences in the design of a pedagogic computer

  • Authors:

  • Enric Pastor;Fermín Sánchez;Anna M. del Corral

  • Affiliations:

  • Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya;Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya;Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

  • Venue:
  • WCAE '98 Proceedings of the 1998 workshop on Computer architecture education
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

This paper describes both the structure and the architecture of a pedagogic computer named "Máquina Rudimentaria". This computer has been designed to be used in a first course on logic design or computer architecture. Therefore, the orthogonality and simplicity have been the major goals. The description of the computer includes the definition of both the machine and the assembly language, the implementation of the data-path and the optimization of the control unit. A programming framework has also been designed to provide the development of small complexity programs in assembly language, its compilation and detailed simulation on the proposed architecture.