emuARM: A tool for teaching the ARM assembly language

Author

Malhotra, Geetika ; Atri, Namita ; Sarangi, Smruti R.

Author_Institution

Indian Inst. of Technol., Delhi, New Delhi, India

fYear

2013

fDate

23-25 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

115

Lastpage

120

Abstract

Technology has always enhanced learning as well as the overall teaching experience. With proper tools and resources in hand, we can easily integrate educational and information technologies into the academic environment. In this paper, we present a software tool to enhance the learning of microprocessors and computer architecture for students. We have developed an ARM instruction set emulator, emuARM, which is a Java based software tool for duplicating the functions of an ARMv5 microprocessor. Here, we present the internal design and features of emuARM. We present a comparison of the features of emuARM with other present ARM emulators in the market. At the end, we present the results of a survey that attests the pedagogical value of our tool.

Keywords

Java; assembly language; computer aided instruction; computer architecture; computer science education; instruction sets; microcontrollers; software engineering; teaching; ARM assembly language teaching; ARM instruction set emulator; ARMv5 microprocessor function duplication; Java-based software tool; academic environment; computer architecture learning enhancement; educational technologies; emuARM features; emuARM internal design; information technologies; microprocessor learning enhancement; software tool; teaching experience enhancement; Assembly; Computer architecture; Debugging; Education; Java; Microprocessors; Registers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Learning and e-Technologies in Education (ICEEE), 2013 Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lodz

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5093-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICeLeTE.2013.6644358

Filename

6644358