Welcome to University Program of MIPS Technologies, Inc.
MIPS University Program provides the professor with instruction materials to
simplify the task of introducing RISC concepts and MIPS architecture. The
general idea is to pull together existing resources, from presentation slides
to simulator, into one package so that professor do not have to recreate
those tools.
The class materials include two presentations:
1) A RISC tutorial entitled, "RISC Architectures: Fundamentals, Design
Alternatives, and Future". This 61 slide presentation offers a
general introduction to RISC architectures.
2) A detail presentation on MIPS architecture, entitled, "MIPS RISC
Architecture". This presentation contains over 150 slides on
numerous aspects of the MIPS architecture, including instruction
set, pipelines, cache memory, memory management, exception
handling, and multiprocessing. This material is based on MIPS
R3000 RISC Processor Architecture.
The class materials are available in either FrameMaker or PostScript format
on Unix, so that professors can modify the presentations as desired. They
can be found under the following sub-directories:
course.materials/Maker.format
course.materials/PS.format
In addition, the MIPS University Program provides an instruction level
simulator called "SPIM". SPIM allows students to run MIPS assembly on
various UNIX platforms (e.g. MIPS, DEC, SUN). SPIM also contains an
X-windows interface which greatly simplifies the student's debugging
task. Spim comes from University of Wisconsin-Madison and was written
by Professor Jim Larus. It can be obtain via ftp. For more info on SPIM
please contact:
James Larus
Computer Sciences Department
1210 West Dayton Street
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
larus@cs.wisc.edu
(608) 262-9519
If you have any questions regarding to MIPS University Program or its
content, please do not hesitate to contact the following persons:
Michael Ngo Shabbir Latif
Member of Marketing Staff Member of Marketing Staff
MIPS Technologies Inc. MIPS Technologies Inc.
phone: (415) 390-4437 phone: (415) 390-4433
e-mail: htn@mti.sgi.com e-mail: shabbir@mti.sgi.com
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