SicTools

Tools for SIC/XE hypothetical computer from the Leland Beck’s book System Software. Includes:

• Assembler
• Simulator
• Linker

Many features are described on the features page and documented in documentation.

See also a companion project SicDemos for several example assembly programs. Available under BSD 2-Clause license.

Installation

SicTools may be downloaded as a JAR file or built from source.

JAR

Download the latest stable version from releases. You may need to change the file permissions to allow execution.

Building from source

Download / clone source code and run make.

git clone https://github.com/jurem/SicTools.git
cd SicTools
make jar

Usage

To run simulator

java -jar out/make/sictools.jar

To run assembler

java -cp out/make/sictools.jar sic.Asm source.asm

where source.asm is the file to be compiled.

To get assembler help

java -cp out/make/sictools.jar sic.Asm -help

To run linker

java -cp out/make/sictools.jar sic.Link -o out.obj in1.obj in2.obj ...

where out.obj is the output file and in1, in2,… are .obj files to be linked.

To get linker help

java -cp out/make/sictools.jar sic.Link -help

To get graphical linker interface

java -cp out/make/sictools.jar sic.Link -g

To Cite

To cite this work, please use the following reference:

• Mihelič, J. and Dobravec, T. (2015), SicSim: A simulator of the educational SIC/XE computer for a system-software course. Comput. Appl. Eng. Educ., 23: 137–146. doi: 10.1002/cae.21585
• The paper on publisher’s page.
• The paper on researchgate.net.

Thanks!