Tutorial 7, EduMIPS64 Simulator

Course project●●●Project websiteWorth 30% of your gradeMilestones● Project proposal (5%): due Oct. 31● Progress report (10%): due Nov. 16● Final presentation (25%): due Dec. 5/6● Final report (60%): due Dec. 6●●Programming involvedCould take a while! Start early

EduMIPS64●●●●●Free (open-source) MIPS64 simulator●Only the integer pipeline is implementedWritten in JavaCompiled using Apache ANTRuns assembly programs●Subset of MIPS64 assembly (and no FP)Basic I/O facilities●●Read/write to/from the consoleRead/write to/from files

Obtaining the software●●●Download the latest source release●●Sourceforge linkedumips64-0.5.3.tar.bz2Extract the sourcesTested on● tar xvjf edumips64-0.5.3.tar.bz2● ant● java -jar edumips64-svn.jarBuild the sources●Run the simulatortr5130gu-1.ece.mcgill.ca

Code structure●Directories●●●●●●●core/: main code of the simulatordata/: some documentationdocs/: main documentationlibs/: external libraries used by the simulatorui/: user interfaceutils/: exception classes, translations, user settingstest/: validation test programs

Source version control●●●It is recommended that you use a versioncontrol system for your coding workGit and mercurial are widely used nowadays●●Pro Git - e-BookHg Init: a Mercurial tutorialYou can host your repositories online for easycollaboration. e.g.:●●Bitbucket (free private repo., supports git/mercurial)Github (free public repo., supports git)