Last Modification ................................................. 06.11.2000

MPASim - AN EXPERIMENTAL VLIW PROCESSOR SIMULATOR

The Minimal Pipeline Architecture (MPA) is an experimental VLIW architecture
being developed at University of Joensuu. MPASim is a simulator program for MPA
processors.

MPASim provides tools for executing and debugging MPA programs as well as
tools for collecting statistical information on program execution. It
provides also an utility for translating and parallelizing DLX programs to
MPA programs. (DLX is Hennessy's and Patterson's experimental RISC
architecture).

MPASim runs in Macintosh environment and requires MacOS 7.1 or newer and
4 MB free memory.

MPASim.sea.hqx is BinHex version of self-extracting Stuffit Lite document
that contains MPASim folder.

Installation:

   1. Move MPASim.sea.hqx file to a Macintosh
   2. Translate BinHex document to Stuffit Lite document by BinHex selecting
      Download->Application item in File Menu
   3. Extract Stuffit Lite document by double-clicking it

For further information, see Report B-1994-3 in Departments report series.

06.11.2000: MPASim PPC 1.2 is available as a self-extracting Stuffit lite
            document MPASim.PPC.sea.