TABLE OF CONTENTS SPIM is a simulator that runs MIPS 2000 programs. SPIM supports various platforms and can be downloaded from the Web. SPIM also contains a simple debugger. In this chapter, we give details on how you can download and use the SPIM simulator. We start with an introduction to the SPIM simulator. The following section gives details about SPIM settings. These settings determine how the simulator loads and runs your programs. We specify the settings you should use in order to run the example MIPS programs given in later chapters. Details about loading and running MIPS assembly language programs are discussed in the next section. This section also presents the debugging facilities provided by SPIM. We conclude the chapter with a summary.
This chapter describes the SPIM simulator, which was developed by Professor James Larus when he was at the Computer Science Department of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. This simulator executes the programs written for the MIPS R2000/R3000 processors. This is a two-in-one product: it contains a simulator to run the MIPS programs as well as a debugger.
SPIM runs on a variety of platforms including UNIX, Linux, Windows, and DOS. In this chapter, we provide details on the Windows version of SPIM called PCSpim. The SPIM simulator can be downloaded from
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~larus/spim.html
This page also gives information on SPIM documentation. Although SPIM is available from this site at the time of this writing, use a good search engine to locate the URL if it is not available from...
