--D. Thiebaut 11:15, 24 August 2012 (EDT)

Misc. Links & Information

Things to remember while programming in assembly
The NASM Manual (http://alien.dowling.edu/~rohit/nasmdoc0.html)
Paul Carter's assembly language tutorial. Paul Carter's page can be found at http://www.drpaulcarter.com/.
The Art of Assembly Language. It assumes a different assembler, and hence a different syntax, but has a lot of very good information.
The Pentium Instruction Set on Wikipedia.

Weekly Schedule

Week	Topics	Reading
Week 1 9/7	Friday Syllabus Class accounts The main players for this semester: PC Processor Memory Disk First program in assembly: recognize the different elements: Structure Presentation Documentation Skeleton program Hello World! on Linux (and its Mac version) Homework #1 Due Monday 9/10/12, 11:00 a.m.	Reading 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 9/10	Monday Review of Hello World Q&A Mini Lab #1 to get everybody up to speed. Wednesday Printing a box (solution for Mini Lab #1) solution programs and discussion 2 possible solutions Generating a listing with "-l" (minus ell) Hexadecimal listing of the memory contents Friday Hexdump of the executable Counter-intuitive results (size of the executables vs. size of the code + data) Exercise: recreating a program from its hexdump Mini Lab #1 Homework 2 & solution programs	Reading
Week 3 9/17	Monday Q&A ASCII Table, for reference Review of hexadecimal system (counting + adding) Wednesday Get the list of all the assembly programs seen in class: ls -ltr ~231a/handout Get one of the files into your 231a-xx account: getcopy movStrings1.asm Or use sftp sftp 231a-xx@beowulf.csc.smith.edu (and then use put filename or get filename to transfer files) Architecture of a simplified Pentium: Registers ALU CU Address and Data buses The mother of all instructions: MOV (covered here) byte, word, double-word variables. Friday Transferring information from and to memory. Example of various mov instructions Exercises with moving strings Homework #3 and Solutions	Reading The mov instruction Basic Computer Organization, Sections 3.0, 3.1, 3.3.1
Week 4 9/24	Monday Q&A Solutions to HW #2 posted (see above). The ADD instruction int a = 3, b = 5, result = 0; result = a + b; Tutorial on using the DDD debugger Wednesday Computing Fibonacci terms: Fib_n = Fib_n-1 + Fib_n-2 with double-words with words with bytes Java's primitive data types SUB, INC, DEC, NEG Friday AND, OR, XOR, NOT (review Boolean Algebra) range of unsigned byte, words, dwords, and quadwords. Homework 4 and solution programs	Reading Sections 2.2, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, and 2.2.4 in the Nasm Manual Sections 3.1 to 3.2.1 in the Nasm Manual The INC instruction.
Week 5 10/1	Monday Review of two-bit Adder The AND, OR, and INVERTER logic gates in one pdf Schematics from NASA, and a specific sheet showing logic gates. Schematics of 2-bit Adder AND, OR, XOR, NOT (review [Boolean Algebra]) range of unsigned byte, words, dwords, and quadwords. Wednesday Mini problem of the day: Assume you want to swap the top 16 bits of eax with its lower 16 bits. How can you do this? Exercises with Signed Numbers Playing with int overflow in java: MultBy3.java Same with Python: multBy3.py Friday Review of 2's Complement: Exercise in need of a solution... Extending the sign from byte to word, or word to double-word. CBW: The CBW (convert byte to word) instruction copies the sign (bit 7) in the source operand (AL) into every bit in the AH register.^[1] CWDE: The CWDE instruction copies the sign (bit 15) of the word in the AX register into every bit position of the high word of the EAX register^[1]. Masking with AND, OR, and NOT, an example Homework 5 and solutions.	Reading Logical Operations on Bits, and Signed and Unsigned Numbers in the Art of Assembly reference. The CBW & CWDE instructions in the Art of Assembly reference.
Week 6 10/8	Monday: Fall Break Wednesday Bitwise operators vs logical operators in Java. Example More Addressing modes: base/indirect base/indirect with diplacement base/inderect indexed base/indirect indexed with displacement The Loop instruction. Exercises with Loops Fibonacci with loops and new addressing modes: Examples Friday Homework 6	Reading The LOOP Instruction Addressing Modes
Week 7 10/15	Monday A word on the LOOP instruction offset condition codes & status register (flags) Conditional Jumps: JA, JAE, JB, JBE, JC, JCXZ, JE, JG, JGE, JL, JLE, JNA, JNAE, JNB, JNBE, JNC, JNE, JNG, JNGE, JNL, JNLE, JNO, JNP, JNS, JNZ, JO, JP, JPE, JPO, JS, JZ (more info here). Flag bits set by the CMP instruction Wednesday Q&A on midterm exam A comment on RISC and CISC Continuation on conditional jumps Exercises on Conditional Jumps Friday Midterm Preparation Midterm Exam, in class, closed books	Reading
Week 8 10/22	Monday Wednesday Friday	Reading
Week 9 10/29	Monday Wednesday Friday	Reading
Week 10 11/05	Monday Wednesday Friday	Reading
Week 11 11/12	Monday Wednesday Friday	Reading
Week 12 11/19	Monday Wednesday Thanksgiving Break Friday Thanksgiving Break	Reading
Week 13 11/26	Monday Wednesday Friday	Reading
Week 14 12/03	Monday Wednesday Friday	Reading
Week 15 12/10	Monday Wednesday Last Class Final Exam, open books & computers	Reading