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
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 Logic Design: Building a "subtractor" with an adder, using only AND, OR, NOT and XOR gates. Mul/Div Exercise: Teller Machine Addressing Modes	Weekly Schedule Week Topics Reading Week 1 9/05 first program assembling programs first look at Pentium processor. Photos. Outputing text in assembly memory map of a program skeleton program Bare versus Skeleton versions A hello-world program for the Mac OSX. More info on Mac OS X system calls can be found here . Mini lab: Lab #1 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 9/08 First introduction to the Pentium processor. Registers, ALU, Control Unit, Busses, Memory Exercises on binary, decimal, hexadecimal system Bin/Dec/Hex converter Listing file with assembly and opcodes Step by Step execution of instructions Exercise on reverse engineering. Solution The mov instruction. Syntax. Operands Units of storage: nybble, byte, word, double-word The add instruction. Using the ddd debugger Homework #1 and Solution Lab #2 Basic computer organization, Sections 3.0, 3.1, 3.3.1 Review of data representation Bits, nybbles, bytes The hex system Week 3 9/15 Review of last lab add5.asm computeFib7.asm new instructions add, sub, inc, dec, loop Exercises Binary adders, Boolean Algebra, and the ALU Signed and unsigned numbers Homework #2 and its Solution Lab #3 Signed and unsigned numbers are covered in Sections 1.7 and 1.8 and Chap. 2 Boolean Algebra Week 4 9/22 A C program that overflows A Python program that overflows (or does it?) How do we represent signed numbers? What formats are available? Signed magnitude 1's complement 2's complement Why the binary adder dictates what we choose Mystery C Program Hex/Bin/Decimal converter Project starts! (on Friday) Homework #3 and its Solution Lab #4 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 Help Notes List of Programs Assembly First program in assembly Skeleton program Hello world! for the Mac Miscellaneous Information Things to remember when working on homework assignments... Linux Related System Calls