In this assignment you will be building an implementation of the hypothetical machine simulator like the one discussed in chapter 1 of our textbook and that you worked on for the first written assignment. The goal is to become better familiar with some fundamental hardware concepts that we rely on when building operating system components in this class. Another goal is to familiarize you with the structure of the assignments you need to complete for this class. Questions:
1. What is the purpose of a standard fetch-execute cycle in a computing system?
2. How does a computing system operate at the hardware level to translate and execute instructions?
3. How can test driven development help you to create and debug your code?
Objectives:
Familiarize ourselves with test driven development and developing software to pass unit tests.
Become familiar with the class assignment structure of unit tests and system tests.
Refresh our understanding of basics of how computing systems operate at a hardware level, by studying in more detail the Hypothetical Machine from our Stallings textbook, and implementing a working simulation of this hypothetical computing system.