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UC Berkeley's intro to computer architecture course still uses MIPS for projects and exam questions.
by frollogaston 1y ago
UC Berkeley's intro to computer architecture course still uses MIPS for projects and exam questions.
- Ar-Curunir 1y agoCS61C uses RISC-V now.
- frollogaston 1y agoOh, cool! I remember hearing a lot about RISC-V back then, and it's also from Berkeley, so makes sense.
- bitwize 1y agoMakes sense. Isn't MIPS like a commercial variant of RISC-I?
- chasil 1y agoIIRC, Berkeley RISC was mainly SPARC, although it was also the AMD 29k. Stanford was MIPS.
- marnett 1y agoThis was true of University of Maryland back in 2015 when I was there…
- VoidWhisperer 1y agoRochester Institute of Technology had MIPS in their CSCI-250 Concepts of Computer Systems class. I remember debugging my final project for the semester being a bit of a nightmare because it was a much larger MIPS assembly project, and debugging it used gdb if I remember correctly.. Not sure if they still use it as I graduated from there back in 2020
- shagie 1y agoWho else used (uses?) SPIM for this? https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~larus/spim.html https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~larus/spim.html ... and apparently its being kept up to date https://spimsimulator.sourceforge.net https://spimsimulator.sourceforge.net with new builds about every other year. (I took the class from Professor Miller in... '92... Operating systems in... '94? 95? was from Professor Larus)
- infinitifall 1y agoA first year course at UNSW, COMP1521[1] teaches MIPS and uses QtSPIM. Far from dead, a package is maintained on the AUR[2]. [1] https://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs1521 https://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs1521 [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qtspim https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qtspim
- pjmlp 1y agoMy university in Portugal did (UNL/FCT), similar timeframe.