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MIPS Assembly Language

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MARS (MIPS Assembler and Runtime Simulator) is a lightweight interactive development environment (IDE) for programming in MIPS assembly language. It includes the following features:

• GUI with point-and-click control (the three icons shown here denote “run,” “single-step,” and “single-step backwards”   ),
• Integrated editor, featuring multiple file-editing tabs, context-sensitive input, and color-coded assembly syntax,
• Easily editable register and memory values, similar to a speadsheet,
• Command line mode for instructors to test and evaluate many programs,
• Floating point registers, coprocessor1, and coprocessor0,
• Variable-speed execution,
• “Tool” utility for MIPS control of simulated devices,

Easy set/removal of breakpoints using check boxes, and Display values in hexadecimal or decimal.

Review: MIPS Assembly Language

Which statement is NOT true about MIPS assembly language?   MARS is a lightweight IDE for programming in MIPS assembly language.   MARS stands for MIPS Assembler and Runtime Simulator.   MIPS uses a reduced instruction set computing (RISC) architecture.   The acronym MIPS is Microprocessor with Interlocked Pipeline Stages.

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