On the Design of a New CPU Architecture for Pedagogical Purposes

Citation:

Ellard, Daniel, David A. Holland, Nicholas Murphy, and Margo Seltzer. 2002. “On the Design of a New CPU Architecture for Pedagogical Purposes.” 2002 Workshop on Computer Architecture Education. Copy at http://www.tinyurl.com/y4rhmnue

Date Presented:

May 2002

Abstract:

Ant-32 is a new processor architecture designed specifically to address the pedagogical needs of teaching many subjects, including assembly language programming, machine architecture, compilers, operating systems, and VLSI design. This paper discusses our motivation for creating Ant-32 and the philosophy we used to guide our design decisions and gives a high-level description of the resulting design.

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