When
you start the program you will see a window like one in the
figure below.
NOTE: The actual window will be larger.

On
the menu bar you will find four menus:
File, Animation,
View
and Help.
This subsection explains the File menu. Follow the corresponding links above to get description of the other menus.
Currently a few animation files with extension
trace are provided. You can start them by selecting a file from
the File/Open menu.
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The Animation and View subsections contain the detailed explanation on how you can use Architecture Animator 1.0 to visually examine the elements of the MIPS micro-architecture.