Computer organization and design (2nd ed.): the hardware/software interface
Computer organization and design (2nd ed.): the hardware/software interface
ISDL: an instruction set description language for retargetability
DAC '97 Proceedings of the 34th annual Design Automation Conference
EXPRESSION: a language for architecture exploration through compiler/simulator retargetability
DATE '99 Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
Effective support of simulation in computer architecture instruction
WCAE '02 Proceedings of the 2002 workshop on Computer architecture education: Held in conjunction with the 29th International Symposium on Computer Architecture
Multimedia components for the visualization of dynamic behavior in computer architectures
WCAE '03 Proceedings of the 2003 workshop on Computer architecture education: Held in conjunction with the 30th International Symposium on Computer Architecture
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This paper presents the use of the ArchC Architecture Description Language (ADL) as a support tool for computer architecture courses. ArchC enables students to perform several experiments using its automatically generated SystemC simulators, covering topics from simple single-cycle (functional) models to pipeline and memory hierarchy simulation. We show how instructive may be the process of modeling a processor using an ADL and suggest several possible exercises, following the course development structure presented in the classical Hennessy and Patterson's computer architecture didactical book. Moreover, we report how the experience of assigning students to study and to model modern embedded architectures has provided good results on an undergraduate computer architecture course at IC-UNICAMP. The simplicity and flexibility of the ADL, along with its simulation features, proved to be an useful tool not only for research, but also for computer architecture education.