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Institute for Computing Systems Architecture Division of Informatics University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK |
Visualisation of the activities
which occur within a processor is an
important aspect of computer
architecture education and an aid to
design and research. Various
systems have been developed for this
purpose, mostly based on specific
processor architectures.
At the University of Edinburgh
two (closely related) simulation
systems, HASE and Simjava, have
been developed, both of which offer a
variety of visualisation facilities.
HASE is a general purpose simulation
environment designed to support
both research and teaching in
computer architecture. It has been used
to support a variety of research
and student design projects, and HASE
models have been used for student
exercises.
Simjava is a Java implementation
of HASE which allows live simulations
to be incorporated into WWW
pages and run remotely.