uMPS is an educational computer system architecture and an accompanying emulator designed from the ground
up to achieve the right trade-off between simplicity and elegance on one side, and realism on the other.
This makes uMPS ideally suited for use in education, such as hands-on operating systems or computer ar‐
chitecture university courses.
The uMPS processor implements the MIPS I instruction set, and can therefore be supported out of the box
by existing MIPS compilers. The architecture details a complete set of I/O devices (terminals, disks,
flash devices, printers, and network adapters) that feature a clean, consistent, programming interface.
The previous revision of the uMPS architecture (uMPS2) brings multiprocessor support.
The emulator comes with built-in debugging features and an easy to use graphical user interface. Apart
from the emulator itself, several support utilities are provided that can get you quickly started in de‐
veloping programs for uMPS.