SPIM S20: A MIPS R2000 Simulator
`` the performance at none of the cost''

James R. Larus
larus@cs.wisc.edu
Computer Sciences Department
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1210 West Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706, USA
608-262-9519

Copyright ©1990, 1991 by James R. Larus
Dec. 23, 1991
(Revision 9 corresponding to SPIM Version 4.4)

Postscript Version of SPIM Reference Manual (256K)

• Introduction
• Simulation of a Virtual Machine
• SPIM Interface
  • Terminal Interface
  • X-Window Interface
• Surprising Features
• Assembler Syntax
• System Calls
• Description of the Machine
  • CPU Registers
  • Byte Order
  • Addressing Modes
  • Load and Store Instructions
  • Exception and Trap Instructions
  • Constant-Manipulating Instructions
  • Arithmetic and Logical Instructions
  • Comparison Instructions
  • Branch and Jump Instructions
  • Data Movement Instructions
  • Floating Point
• Memory Usage
• Calling Convention
• About this document ...