Welcome to University Program of MIPS Technologies, Inc.

MIPS University Program provides the professor with instruction materials to
simplify the task of introducing RISC concepts and MIPS architecture. The
general idea is to pull together existing resources, from presentation slides
to simulator, into one package so that professor do not have to recreate
those tools.

The class materials include two presentations:

	1) A RISC tutorial entitled, "RISC Architectures: Fundamentals, Design
	   Alternatives, and Future". This 61 slide presentation offers a
	   general introduction to RISC architectures.

	2) A detail presentation on MIPS architecture, entitled, "MIPS RISC
	   Architecture". This presentation contains over 150 slides on
	   numerous aspects of the MIPS architecture, including instruction
	   set, pipelines, cache memory, memory management, exception
	   handling, and multiprocessing. This material is based on MIPS
	   R3000 RISC Processor Architecture.

The class materials are available in either FrameMaker or PostScript format
on Unix, so that professors can modify the presentations as desired. They
can be found under the following sub-directories:

		course.materials/Maker.format
		course.materials/PS.format

In addition, the MIPS University Program provides an instruction level
simulator called "SPIM". SPIM allows students to run MIPS assembly on
various UNIX platforms (e.g. MIPS, DEC, SUN). SPIM also contains an
X-windows interface which greatly simplifies the student's debugging
task. Spim comes from University of Wisconsin-Madison and was written
by Professor Jim Larus. It can be obtain via ftp. For more info on SPIM
please contact:

James Larus
Computer Sciences Department
1210 West Dayton Street
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706

larus@cs.wisc.edu
(608) 262-9519

If you have any questions regarding to MIPS University Program or its
content, please do not hesitate to contact the following persons:

	Michael Ngo				Shabbir Latif
	Member of Marketing Staff		Member of Marketing Staff
	MIPS Technologies Inc.			MIPS Technologies Inc.

	phone: (415) 390-4437			phone: (415) 390-4433
	e-mail: htn@mti.sgi.com			e-mail: shabbir@mti.sgi.com

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