CSC231 Schedule 2010

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Weekly Schedule

Week	Topics	Reading
Week 1 9/08	Wed 9/8 Introduction Syllabus The PC What's inside? The main players First program in assembly structure presentation documentation Fri 9/10 Skeleton program "Hello world!" in assembly: program Introduction to wikimedia Wikipedia Cheat-Sheet Formatting text Inserting images Creating links Hello world! for the Mac PC Demolition Lab <--- report due next Friday, 9/17/10	Chapter 1 in the Art of Assembly. Also Chapter 3, Sections 0 to 3.1.2. Sections 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, and 1.3.5 in Carter's PC Assembly Language.
Week 2 9/13	Monday 9/13 Mini Lab Assembling with the -l option to generate a listing nasm -f elf -F stabs -l helloworld.S helloworld.asm The memory contains numbers only Boolean Algebra Binary system logic expressions Wednesday 9/15 Digital Electronics Lab in FH143 Friday 9/17 Digital Electronics Lab in FH143 Mini Lab #1 Lab #2 (Wednesday) Lab #3 (Friday) Homework #1 and Solution Programs
Week 3 9/20	Monday 9/20 Three-bit adder. Review A word on Verilog and FPGAs Examples Architecture of the Pentium (simplified) Wednesday 9/22 Reverse engineering a listing, and solution. ASCII Table Friday 9/24 Comments on lab reports Once again: Everything in memory is a number! Review the reverse engineering example Exercises on Binary/Hexadecimal (do on your own!) The mov instruction (covered here). Introduction to the 32-bit registers: EAX, EBX, ECX, EDX Introduction to the 16-bit registers: AX, BX, CX, DX Introduction to the 8-bit registers: AL, AH, BL, BH, CL, CH, DL, DH Homework #2 and solutions	Basic Computer Organization, Sections 3.0, 3.1, 3.3.1 Review Data Representation Bits, Nibbles, Bytes The Hexadecimal System The MOV instruction
Week 4 9/27	Monday 9/27 The MOV Instruction Exercises with the MOV instruction Wednesday 9/29 MOUNTAIN DAY! Friday 10/1 Arithmetic instructions: ADD, SUB, INC, DEC Logic instructions: AND, OR, NOT, XOR using DDD to debug programs Lab 4, Part 1 Lab 4: Using the debugger Homework #3 and Solutions
Week 5 10/04	Monday 10/4 Exercises with arithmetic instructions Lab 4, Part 2 Wednesday 10/6 Representing negative numbers, Signed Magnitude, 1's complement, 2's complement. Exercises Friday 10/8 A Table of powers of 2: this will be useful for the exercises of the day... C++ program looping forever... Python program looping forever... Problem of the day... Lab 4: Using the debugger Homework #4	Signed and unsigned numbers are covered in Sections 1.7 and 1.8 and Chap. 2 Boolean Algebra
Week 6 10/11	Monday Fall Break Wednesday 10/13 Review 2's complement An example illlustrating what compiler code looks like. Logic Design: Building a "subtractor" with an adder, using only AND, OR, NOT and XOR gates. Mul/Div Exercise: Teller Machine Friday 10/15 Addressing Modes Question of the day: What is an instruction set? Is there a best way to define an instruction set? Pentium Instruction Set Cool videos for a rainy afternoon Introduction to Python by Guido van Rossun, from Google Videos. The first 15 minutes are fine. You can skip the rest! Intro to Python (The first 5 minutes are good). More videos of Guido van Rossun, the creator of Python. The main addressing modes: inherent register immediate direct indirect/based/indexed indirect with displacement base-indexed base-indexed with displacement Exercises on Addressing Modes	The signed and unsigned representations of numbers are covered in Sections 1.7 and 1.8 of The Art of Assembly, and in Chapter 2 of Carter's PC Assembly Language. Addressing modes are covered in Chapter 4 of The Art of Assembly. We won't cover "Displacement Only Addressing" modes (Section 4.6.2.1). Mentally replace 16-bit registers by 32-bit registers when reading this section.
Week 7 10/18	Monday In class Midterm Exam
Week 8 10/25
Week 9 11/01
Week 10 11/08
Week 11 11/15
Week 12 11/22	Wednesday: Thanksgiving Break Friday: Thanksgiving Break
Week 13 11/29
Week 14 12/06
Week 15 12/13	Monday: Last Class

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List of Programs

Assembly

• First program in assembly
• Skeleton program
• Hello world! for the Mac

Miscellaneous Information

• List of Pentium Instructions with Op-Codes
• Pentium Instruction Set
• Things to remember when working on homework assignments...

Linux Related

• System Calls