EDUCATIONAL PROCESSOR

• Main Author: NIK MOHAMAD SHUKRI, NIK ADLI HAKIMI
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi Petronas 2011
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/7309/1/2011%20-%20Educational%20processor.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/7309/

This report discusses about the overview of the chosen project, which is an Educational Processor (EduCPU). The objective of this project is to develop a simple processor using TTL logic gates and also to develop simulation software for educational purpose. The software is responsible for sending instruction codes to the simple processor through serial communication in order to execute the instruction. The software written is also capable of simulating the behaviour of the simple processor. This educational processor would be used as a learning tool in Computer System Architecture course in in Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) to assist students in understanding about computer system architecture. In order to complete this project, the scope of study basically will cover the computer system architecture and details about Central Processing Unit (CPU). The instruction format and CPU data path design both are based on MIPS architecture processor. The methodologies that are involved in this project are design and validation phase, constructing the hardware, and programming the user interface to interact with the educational processor.