The progressive learning platform or PLP channel hosts tutorials that will be useful for someone who would like to get familiar with the PLP processor and the PLP IDE. You can teach yourself about microprocessors by writing assembly program for PLP, and visualize how the programs interact with the underlying hardware. The simulation has a one to one correspondence with Digilent's Nexys boards, and the PLP CPU. Thus, you can test your programs in the PLP IDE and then download them on to the board to see them run on real hardware.
PLP was designed with the help of funding from the National Science Foundation.