created: 06/06/01

# 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). Details will be discussed in later chapters.

### QUESTION 1:

(Review) What is a register?