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When teaching computer architecture, why are universities using obscure CPUs?
On the FERIT University, we are using the PicoBlaze CPU to study Computer Architecture. And the same is true for a university in Argentina that the GitHub user agustiza is from. And we ran into a
Specifically, after working through a number of problems and examples in FRISC, I felt ready to tackle any assembly, regardless of the length of the manual or size of the instruction set, because I understood the governing concepts well. At the same time I was careful to include all of the complexities needed to achieve high performance in practice, so that MMIX could in principle be built and even perhaps be competitive with some of the fastest general-purpose computers in the marketplace." When I used to teach programming at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, the computer architecture course involved the students building a CPU from the ground up (using logic gates, but done in a circuit simulator).
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