MARS: An education-oriented MIPS assembly language simulator

Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 239-243

  Vollmar, Kenneth ^a   Sanderson, Pete ^b  

^a MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OTTERBEIN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Architecture; Assembly language; MIPS; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE SIMULATORS; COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENTS; UNDERGRADUATE COMPUTER SCIENCE;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; STUDENTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 37849008824     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1121341.1121415     Document Type: Conference Paper

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