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MIPS Architecture

MIPS is a well-known and relatively simple architecture
  • used in e.g. Silicon Graphics, NEC, Nintendo64, ...
We are not going to actually use a MIPS CPU, we are going to use a simulator

We consider the MIPS32 version of the MIPS family and use the spim simulator

  • qtspim ... provides a GUI front-end, useful for debugging
  • spim ... command-line based version, useful for testing
Executables and source: http://spimsimulator.sourceforge.net/