An instructional laboratory to support microprogramming

Author

Hamblen, James O. ; Parker, Alan ; Rohling, Greg A.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

Volume

33

Issue

4

fYear

1990

fDate

11/1/1990 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

333

Lastpage

336

Abstract

A microprogramming laboratory that supports a one-quarter computer architecture course is described. This laboratory includes an inexpensive 32-bit microprogrammable VLSI computer board with writable control store, an 8 MFLOP floating-point processor, advanced microcode debugging support, and a relocatable macro meta assembler. The laboratory described was developed and taught at Georgia Institute of Technology in the School of Electrical Engineering. The cost of the microprogrammable hardware is comparable to that of a personal computer or other laboratory instruments such as oscilloscopes

Keywords

computer architecture; computer science education; educational courses; laboratories; microprogramming; testing; 32-bit microprogrammable VLSI computer board; 8 MFLOP floating-point processor; USA; computer architecture course; computer science; education; instructional laboratory; macro meta assembler; microcode debugging; microprogramming; oscilloscopes; personal computer; teaching; writable control store; Assembly; Computer architecture; Costs; Debugging; Hardware; Instruments; Laboratories; Microcomputers; Microprogramming; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Education, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9359

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/13.61085

Filename

61085