Assembly language through the Java virtual machine

Abstract

Student understanding of choices and design decisions about instruction formats, addressing, instruction types, and flow of control is developed through the assembly level. We propose the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) as the architecture for teaching assembly language. The paper describes how to use the JVM as a teaching tool for a sophomore level Assembly Language and Computer Architecture course.

VisualJVM: A Visual Tool for Teaching Java Technology

“…Moreover, this tool is suitable for use in other courses, such as those on assembly language [17] and compiler construction [18]. The authors are planning to apply VisualJVM to such courses and to offer an advanced seminar for interested researchers or postgraduate students, which would provide an in-depth understanding of the fundamentals of virtual machine and Java technology.…”

Frances

“…Bredlau et al suggest using the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for teaching assembly [7]. The idea is to let the java compiler create JVM code which is compared to the source code.…”