A computer is a multipurpose electronic device that can receive, process and store data
Digital, or boolean, logic is the fundamental concept underpinning all modern computer systems.
A logic simulator is a computer program that allows designers and experimenters to conduct virtual tests of complex digital circuitry before working with any hardware
MIPS or Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture The first commercial MIPS model, R2000 was announced in 1985.
SPIM is a MIPS processor simulator, designed to run assembly language code for this architecture. The program simulates R2000 and R3000 processors, and was written by James R. Larus while a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Introduction - Assembly Language The basic job of a CPU,its excute lots of instructions.The set of instructions a particular CPU implements is an Instruction Set Architecture (ISA),few examples: 1) Intel 80x86 (Pentium 4) 2)IBM/Motorola 3)PowerPc (old Macintosh) 4)MIPs 5)Intel IA64 Different CPU implement different sets of instructions.
Introduction - A processor is the logic circuitry that responds to and processes the basic instructions that drive a computer. The four primary functions of a processor are fetch, decode, execute and writeback.
Introduction -A memory or a data byte, or a word, or a double word, or a quad word may be accessed from or at all addressable locations with a similar process would be used to access from all locations and there is would be equal access time for a read or for a write that is independent of a memory address location.
In this blog I will discuss on input/output procedures and devices .External device are not generally connected directly int the bus structure of the computer.I/O module is an interface for the external devices (peripherals) to CPU and memory.
Introduction to Parallel Processing - In computers, parallel processing is the processing of program instructions by dividing them among multiple processors with the objective of running a program in less time. - In the earliest computers, only one program ran at a time.
QTSPIM
GXemul
(formerly known as mips64emul) is a computer architecture emulator being
developed by Anders Gavare. It is available as free software under a revised
BSD-style license. In 2005, Gavare changed the name of the software project
from mips64emul to GXemul. This was to avoid giving the impression that the
emulator was confined to the MIPS instruction set, which was the only architecture
being emulated initially.
QEMU is a hosted virtual machine monitor: It emulates CPUs
through dynamic binary translation and provides a set of device models,
enabling it to run a variety of unmodified guest operating systems. It also can
be used together with KVM in order to run virtual machines at near-native speed
(requiring hardware virtualization extensions on x86 machines). QEMU can also
be used purely for CPU emulation for user-level processes, allowing
applications compiled for one architecture to be run on another..
