MipsIt: a simulation and development environment using animation for computer architecture education

  • Authors:
  • Mats Brorsson

  • Affiliations:
  • Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • WCAE '02 Proceedings of the 2002 workshop on Computer architecture education: Held in conjunction with the 29th International Symposium on Computer Architecture
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Computer animation is a tool which nowadays is used in more and more fields. In this paper we describe the use of computer animation to support the learning of computer organization itself. MipsIt is a system consisting of a software development environment, a system and cache simulator and a highly flexible microarchitecture simulator used for pipeline studies. It has been in use for several years now and constitutes an important tool in the education at Lund University and KTH, Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.