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When we were learning this in my degree we used little man computer[1] to help visualise whats going on.

We used titokone [1]. The newest version of it even has some graphics support in it (although it's super slow).

We are working on our own (in Python, so it's not super fast) hardware simulator, check it out if you are interested: http://assemblysimulator.pythonanywhere.com/