We started out with the Motorola HC11, I'm guessing because someone used it a lot on the past and no one wants to redo all the course material. We used a simula

We started out with the Motorola HC11, I'm guessing because someone used it a lot on the past and no one wants to redo all the course material. We used a simulator called "Wookie". Despite being somewhat obscure, it has the advantage that it is easy to understand while also being real. We had a board where you could hook into the address and data busses, since the memory and busses were external. Also, it has a simple bus, as opposed to an ARM chip with AHB, APB, etc, and no pipelining.