A new simulation system for an educational computer model

In this study, a new simulation system has been developed for an educational computer which is called BB3 (Bizim Bilgisayar 3). The major features of the simulation system is just like the known program writing and debugging tools, by means of which can write a program in assembly language, run and watch hardware status changes and also can watch the operations made by digital circuits that forms whole hardware in details. Thus, a correspondence can be revealed between the hardware and software in all details. The new simulation system lets us see the effects of software over hardware more effectively by showing the changes on hardvare components with their previous status. The two new components had been developed for writing programs in assembly language and monitoring and editing the contents of memory. The Watches feature had been implemented to monitor the changes on certain memory cells. The whole simulation system has been developed under the object oriented programming paradigms. The objects that are responsible for simulating the hardware have been designed like an abstracted system. Thus, the major parts that consist the simulator can be used by different user interfaces and when a change is made on it, that can couse the interface to reflect that change. The simulation system had been developed in Delphi language with Delphi XE integrated development environment and it is compatible with Windows operation system.