MARS is a lightweight interactive development environment (IDE) for programming in MIPS assembly language, intended for educational-level use with Patterson and Hennessy's Computer Organization and Design.

It is available for you to download as an executable JAR file. Click the

It is available for you to download as an executable JAR file. Click theMARS v.4.5 link at right, under Releases, to access the download.

This is the original MARS, developed by Pete Sanderson and Ken Vollmar. Developed while Pete was professor at Otterbein University and Ken was professor at Missouri State University. Both are now retired. This is a legacy application but is very stable and continues to be used by universities throughout the world as of 2024. The last release was MARS 4.5 in August 2014. Until September 2024 the MARS website, including executable JAR file download, was hosted by Missouri State University. That is no longer the case.