PathSim, Copyright (C) 2005, is distributed through a ZIP file as free software by the author Dalton R. Hunkins in accordance to the terms and conditions of GNU General Public License. When you extract the files, you will obtain a main folder PathSim, and two subfolders DataPathSimulator and SuggestedLabExercises.
The simulator is resident in the first subfolder and the name of the main page is PathSim.html. You should start by first getting an overview of the simulator, which you can do in one of two ways. You can open PathSim.html with your browser (PathSim has been verified with Internet Explorer 6.0, Netscape 7.2 and Firefox 1.0.4). There is a button in the lower-right corner named “About PathSim.” Clicking on this button takes you to a “help” page. Alternately, you can open and view the “help” page directly. This page is named aboutPathSim.html and is resident in the folder HelpFiles, which is a subfolder of DataPathSimulator.
You should do Lab A after obtaining a overview and are ready to “exercise” the simulator, This lab is basically a tutorial on the simulator. The html file for the lab can be found in the folder LabA, which is a subfolder of SuggestedLabExercises. You can also get this page through a link in the “help” page of PathSim. Also note that there are two other suggested lab exercises. The latter exercises guide the user through steps that expand the functionality of the simulator, adding additional mips instructions.
Click here to download/open the zip file containing the html with embedded Javascript and applet (jar) files making up the simulator. The source for the Java applet is available by contacting the author.
Hope you enjoy the simulator. You can contact the author with any questions and, of course, comments are appreciated.
Dalton R. Hunkins, Professor
Computer Science Department
St. Bonaventure University
Date last modified: August 21, 2006