ARCHO: A computer based learning system for teaching computer architectures

The paper describes an educational system aimed at providing a course of computer architecture for graduate students. The system, called ARCHO, is composed by teacher oriented modules (to build lectures, exercises, computer architectures) and students oriented modules (to navigate the hypertext lectures, to resolve exercises and to compile programs on the computer processor simulator). ARCHO provides and integrates two different systems: ARCAL to support the study of theoretical concepts and to verify lectures and APE to support the laboratory activity by the building and using a computer architecture simulator.