ENEE 646: Digital Computer Design

In this assignment, you will become familiar with the MIPS integer and floating point pipelines. You will create a cycle-accurate simulator of an in-order MIPS processor, called mipsim, that supports 32-bit integer and floating point operations. Your simulator will be very basic: it will model all the necessary pipeline interlocks to enforce correct pipeline execution, but it will not support out-of-order execution, data forwarding, nor branch prediction. (These more advanced features will be explored in future programming assignments).