An Integrated Educational Environment for Computer Architecture and Organisation

The paper presents an integrated educational environment for teaching courses in computer architecture and organisation at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade. The integrated educational environment includes the Integrated Educational Computer System (IECS), the reference manuals for it, the Software Package of the Integrated Educational Computer System (SPIECS), a set of laboratory experiments and the EVIDAS program. The IECS is developed to demonstrate all major topics lectured in the mentioned courses. The accompanying manuals give all details of its structure. The SPIECS includes the graphical simulators of the IECS down to the register transfer level and the tools needed to select, configure, initialise and run the simulation of the appropriate parts of the IECS. A set of laboratory experiments is devised for students’ practical work with the IECS under control of the EVIDAS program. This program is developed to keep the complete evidence about each student’s work in the laboratory, assess its knowledge at the end of each laboratory experiment and produce various reports at the completion of all laboratory experiments.