MARS (MIPS Assembler and Runtime Simulator)
An IDE for MIPS Assembly Language Programming
MARS is a lightweight interactive development environment (IDE) for programming in MIPS assembly language, intended for educational-level use with Patterson and Hennessy's Computer Organization and Design.
NEW Jan. 2011: "MARS has been tested in the Softpedia labs
using several industry-leading security solutions and found to be completely
clean of adware/spyware components. ... Softpedia guarantees that MARS 4.0.1 is 100% FREE,
which means it does not contain any form of malware, including spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors."
Softpedia's MARS page
Download MARS 4.2 software! (Aug. 2011)
New for 4.0: new editor, featuring multiple files, context-sensitive input, and color-coding.
- See a screenshot (1478 x 889 pixels, 198 KB JPEG)
- Tutorial materials
Sample MIPS assembly program to run under MARS Fibonacci.asm
MARS features overview: (List of features by version)
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GUI with point-and-click control and integrated editor
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Easily editable register and memory values, similar to a spreadsheet
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Display values in hexadecimal or decimal
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Command line mode for instructors to test and evaluate many programs easily
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Floating point registers, coprocessor1 and coprocessor2. Standard tool: bit-level view and edit of 32-bit floating point registers (screenshot).
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Variable-speed single-step execution
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"Tool" utility for MIPS control of simulated devices. Standard tool: Cache performance analysis tool (screenshot).
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Single-step backwards
