WinDLX DLX-Pipeline Simulator

(c) Copyright 1992 by by TU Vienna, Inst. f乺 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?

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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

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IBM personal computer or lookalike with DOS 3.3 or later and Microsoft

Windows 3.0 or newer.

Installation

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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.

DLX 处理器 (发音为 "DeLuXe")是Hennessy 和Patterson合著一书《Computer Architecture - A Quantitative Approach》中流水线处理器的例子。WinDLX是一个基于Windows的模拟器。本教程通过一个实例介绍WinDLX的使用方法。WinDLX模拟器能够演示DLX流水线是如何工作的。