Three Simulator Tools for Teaching Computer Architecture: EasyCPU, Little Man Computer, and RTLSim

ACM Journal on Educational Resources in Computing

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 60-80

  Yehezkel, Cecile ^a   Yurcik, William ^b   Pearson, Murray ^c   Armstrong, Dean ^c  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Computer architecture simulators; Design; education

Indexed keywords

EID: 10044280275     PISSN: 15314278     EISSN: 15314278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/514144.514732     Document Type: Article

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