CHAPTER 9 — First SPIM Program

This chapter discusses how to run the SPIM simulator. A small MIPS program is used as an example.

Chapter Topics:

• Starting SPIM
• The SPIM user interface
• Writing an assembly source program
• Assembling and loading a program
• Running a program

This chapter goes through the steps of running a program on SPIM (the MIPS simulator). Later chapters discuss how to create a program.