DCMSIM: didactic cache memory simulator

Author

Cordeiro, Eduardo S. ; Stefani, Italo G A ; Soares, Tays C A P ; Martins, Carlos A P S

Author_Institution

Program In Comput. Sci. Student, Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

5-8 Nov. 2003

Abstract

We present a functional and structural didactic simulator of cache memory systems developed at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The development occurred during the undergraduate Computer Architecture discipline, in the Computer Science course. Its implementation is one part of a new didactic method, in which developers (students of the Computer Architecture discipline) must learn the concepts and theory of the discipline topics to correctly apply them in the simulator. In our simulator, DCMSim, there are features to allow students to construct and verify knowledge, testing and comparing several different configurations and memory access traces.

Keywords

cache storage; computer architecture; computer science education; educational courses; Brazil; Computer Architecture discipline; Computer Science course; DCMSim; Minas Gerais; Pontifical Catholic University; didactic cache memory simulator; Buildings; Cache memory; Computer architecture; Computer science; Computer science education; Control systems; Data engineering; Educational programs; Logic; Memory architecture;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education, 2003. FIE 2003 33rd Annual

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7961-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2003.1264669

Filename

1264669