MARS-CACHE: simulador de jerarquía de memoria para MARS

Abstract

MARS es un IDE de programación en lenguaje ensamblador MIPS, el cual se creó con fines didácticos y nos permite conocer cómo se comporta un procesador de una manera sencilla gracias a la interfaz de la que nos provee. El objetivo de este proyecto es el desarrollo de una extensión de la aplicación del programa MARS para simular la jerarquía de memoria, para las asignaturas de Fundamentos de Computadoras, Arquitectura y Organización de Computadores y Arquitecturas de Computación Avanzadas, de la Escuela de Ingeniería Informática de Valladolid.

MARS is an IDE for programming in MIPS assembly language. MARS was created for educational purposes and allows us to know how a processor behaves in a simple way thanks to the its interface. The main purpose of this project is to develop an extension of MARS to simulate the memory hierarchy. This simulator will be used in several subjects of the Degree in Computer Engineering of University of Valladolid, such as Fundamentals of Computers, Architecture and Organization of Computers and Advanced Computer Architectures, The simulator requires two input files to execute the memory hierarchy simulator. The first file is a text file with a program written in MIPS assembly language, while the second is a .xml file used to configure the parameters of the memory hierarchy. The project has been developed using the Java programming language for implementing the cache simulator, while html and css have also been used to create the user interface.