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Topics |
Reading
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Week 1
9/08
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- Wed 9/8
- Introduction
- Syllabus
- The PC
- What's inside?
- The main players
- First program in assembly
- structure
- presentation
- documentation
- Fri 9/10
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Week 2
9/13
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- 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
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Week 3
9/20
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- Monday 9/20
- Three-bit adder. Review
- A word on Verilog and FPGAs Examples
- Architecture of the Pentium (simplified)
- Wednesday 9/22
- 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 16-bit registers: AX, BX, CX, DX
- Introduction to the 8-bit registers: AL, AH, BL, BH, CL, CH, DL, DH
- Arithmetic instructions: ADD, SUB, INC, DEC, MUL, DIV
- Representing negative numbers
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Week 4
9/27
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- Monday 9/27
- using DDD to debug programs
- Lab 4
- Lab 4: Using the debugger
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Week 5
10/04
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Week 6
10/11
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Week 7
10/18
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- Monday: In class Midterm Exam
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Week 8
10/25
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Week 9
11/01
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Week 10
11/08
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Week 11
11/15
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Week 12
11/22
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- Wednesday: Thanksgiving Break
- Friday: Thanksgiving Break
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Week 13
11/29
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Week 14
12/06
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Week 15
12/13
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