This report discusses about the overview of the chosen project, which is an
Educational Processor (EduCPU). The objective of this project is to develop a simple
processor using TTL logic gates and also to develop simulation software for
educational purpose. The software is responsible for sending instruction codes to the
simple processor through serial communication in order to execute the instruction.
The software written is also capable of simulating the behaviour of the simple
processor. This educational processor would be used as a learning tool in Computer
System Architecture course in in Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) to assist
students in understanding about computer system architecture. In order to complete
this project, the scope of study basically will cover the computer system architecture
and details about Central Processing Unit (CPU). The instruction format and CPU
data path design both are based on MIPS architecture processor. The methodologies
that are involved in this project are design and validation phase, constructing the
hardware, and programming the user interface to interact with the educational
processor
