The Design and Development of a Hybrid Monitor/Debugger System for the Microprogrammable Minicomputer Emulator (MIME).
Abstract
This report describes the design and development of a monitor/debugger system for the Microprogrammable Minicomputer Emulator (MIME). The MIME is an educationally oriented, user-microprogrammable, general purpose minicomputer that will be used in classroom and laboratory instruction and student design projects in the areas of computer control, emulation, and microprogrmming. The MIME Monitor/Debugger System will assist students in developing microprograms to run on the MIME and will also assist in the final integration and checkout of the MIME hardware. This report analyzes the conceptual implementations of monitor/debugger systems and applies these implementations to the MIME computer. The analysis results are presented which recommend that a dual processor hybrid monitor/debugger implementatin should be developed for the MIME. This implementation of a hybrid system combines the flexibility of software with the speed of hardware. The MIME Monitor/Debugger System design presented in this report when fabricated and tested, will produce a monitor/debugger system that is interactive with the system user, has the flexibility to encompass changing user requirements, and has the speed to monitor and control the real-time operation of the MIME computer. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1979
- Accession Number
- ADA069193
Entities
People
- Joseph J. Zelasco Jr
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology