burzt/cpu-datapath-webapp

Interactive CPU Datapath Simulator made to educate students on the MIPS architecture

CPU Datapath Web App

The CPU Datapath Web App is an open-source graphical simulator of the path that data follows within a CPU. Available at burzt.github.io/cpu-datapath-webapp.

More information on CPU datapaths can be found here: https://www.cise.ufl.edu/~mssz/CompOrg/CDA-proc.html

This project was built using go.js.

Getting Started

1. Go to http://cpudatapath.com in a browser. (phone browser does not display correctly)
2. Click on any of the instructions listed in the nav bar.
3. Click and drag from point to point from each component, if it is a valid connection for the instruction it will stay.
4. Click a different instruction to load a new one, or the same one to reload the current instruction.

Features

Basic Instructions

• Add/Subtract, Load, Store and Branch instructions

Advanced Instructions

• Indexed Addressing: Load and Store

Team

Aaron Elam	Daniel Carpenter	Zachary Boemer
github.com/AaronElam	github.com/DanielCarpenter	github.com/zachboemer

Acknowledgements

• Big thanks to former TXST students Jacob M. Hope & Connor Reid for their CPU Sim iOS App
• Go.js documentation can be found here.
• Hosted on Digital Ocean's Droplet-based Cloud