MARS: An Education-Oriented MIPS Assembly Language Simulator

Authors

Pete Sanderson, Otterbein UniversityFollow
Kenneth Vollmar, Missouri State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2007

Publication Title

SIGCSE Bulletin : Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

Keywords

MARS, GUI, Java-Based Simulator, MIPS Assembly Language

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.

First Page

239

Last Page

243

Volume

38

Issue

1

Repository Citation

Sanderson, Pete and Vollmar, Kenneth, "MARS: An Education-Oriented MIPS Assembly Language Simulator" (2007). Mathematics Faculty Scholarship. 5.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/math_fac/5

Original Citation

Vollmar, K. ( 1 ), and P. ( 2 ) Sanderson. "MARS: An Education-Oriented MIPS Assembly Language Simulator." Proceedings Of The Thirty-Seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium On Computer Science Education Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (2007): 239-243.

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