WinDLX.rar_DLX_wind_windlx

WinDLX DLX-Pipeline Simulator (c) Copyright 1992 by by TU Vienna, Inst. f�r Technische Informatik DLX simulator (c) Copyright 1989 by Regents of the University of California This README contains information for the first-time installation of WinDLX as it is distributed on this diskette. What is WinDLX? --------------- WinDLX is a pipeline simulator for the DLX processor as described in D.A. Patterson / J.L. Hennessy: Computer Architecture - A Quantitative Approach Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Mateo, California It is a MS-Windows based frontend for the text-only DLX simulator available by the above authors. After loading a symbolic DLX assembler code, most of the information relevant to the CPU (pipeline, registers, I/O, memory, ...) can be viewed and modified while executing the code step-by-step or continuously. WinDLX offers statistics about pipeline behavior in time. This program greatly helps people in understanding pipelining concepts as well as other architectural specifics of RISC processors. System prerequisites -------------------- IBM personal computer or lookalike with DOS 3.3 or later and Microsoft Windows 3.0 or newer. Installation ------------ The file WINDLX_D.EXE on this diskette is a self-extracting archive. To unpack it, follow these steps: 1.) create a directory "WINDLX" somewhere on your harddisk and make this directory your current. 2.) type in the following line: A:\WINDLX\WINDLX_D This will unpack the files in the archive and install them on the harddisk. The following files will be created: WINDLX.EXE -- the WinDLX executable WINDLX.HLP -- Windows helpfile *.S -- sample assembler input files README -- this file ..... 3.) Install the program into the Program Manager and click on the symbol to start it. The help facility is very extensive and covers almost everything we could think of. Feel free to create your own assembler files and experiment with different CPU configurations.