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We have three primary goals in our educational project. First, we want to provide a robust vision of how hardware and software interplay, by integrating the design of an instruction set -through microprogramming -and using this instruction set for assembly programming. Second, we want to offer a versatile tool where the previous tight vision could be tested beyond handwritten exercises. This is called WepSIM and provides an initial elemental processor with a microprogrammed subset of the MIPS instruction set. Besides, WepSIM is flexible enough to be adapted to other instruction sets or hardware components (ARM, x86, etc.). Third, we want to extend the activities of our University lab lectures (fixed hours in a fixed place) so that the students could learn using their mobile device in near any location and any moment of the day.This article introduces how WepSIM 1 has improved the teaching of the Computer Structure course by empowering students with a more dynamic and autonomous learning process. In this work, we show the results obtained during the first usage experience -three years -in the Computer Structure course of the Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University Carlos III of Madrid.

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