The book progresses by means of illustrative programs and subroutines to advanced topics such as floating-point arithmetic and operating system calls. Exercises in writing programs are included that offer the practice necessary to successfully program original applications. This is a unique sourcebook for the large and ever-growing personal computer market. Cortex M3 is one of these designs, recently developed by ARM with microcontroller applications in mind.
To conceive a particularly optimized piece of software as is often the case in the world of embedded systems it is often necessary to know how to program in an assembly language. This book explains the basics of programming in an assembly language, while being based on the architecture of Cortex M3 in detail and developing many examples.
It is written for people who have never programmed in an assembly language and is thus didactic and progresses step by step by defining the concepts necessary to acquiring a good understanding of these techniques. The focus of this book is the Motorola MC microprocessor family. Many of the design practices and fundamental concepts can apply to other modern microprocessors as well. This guide covers both the software and hardware of the M family, and is designed as a text for a one-semester, junior-level microprocessor course that covers both programming and system design using the MC microprocessor.
It deals with the design of complex VLSI chips, specifically of microprocessor chip sets. The aim is on the one hand to provide an overview of the state of the art, and on the other hand to describe specific design know-how. The depth of detail presented goes considerably beyond the level of information usually found in computer science text books.
The rapidly developing discipline of designing complex VLSI chips, especially microprocessors, requires a significant extension of the state of the art.
We are observing the genesis of a new engineering discipline, the design and realization of very complex logical structures, and we are obviously only at the beginning. This discipline is still young and immature, alternate concepts are still evolving, and "the best way to do it" is still being explored. Therefore it is not yet possible to describe the different methods in use and to evaluate them. However, the economic impact is significant today, and the heavy investment that companies in the USA, the Far East, and in Europe, are making in gener ating VLSI design competence is a testimony to the importance this field is expected to have in the future.
Staying competitive requires mastering and extending this competence. The author concentrates on covering the family of processors up to and including the Pentium. The focus is on providing students with a firm grasp of the main features of assembly programming, and how it can be used to improve a computer's performance. All of the main features are covered in depth: stacks, addressing modes, arithmetic, selection and iteration, as well as bit manipulation.
The book is based on a successful course given by the author and includes numerous hands-on exercises. I want to point out that English is not my first language and you're welcome to provide feedback for grammatical errors you may find. In the Beginning of the computer world, there is a Word. It's the Assembly language. It's so close to the machine that it's hard to call it a language.
But it's a weird language and it's not simply binary code with 0's and 1's. The assembly exists since the beginning. Since the assembly language is very close to the machine language, it's possible to control computer behavior in a very specific manner. Therefore learning the assembly language is more like learning how to speak directly to the computer hardware than compared with programming. Studying computer itself helps us to figure out how every programming language works on a computer.
And you can see the principles common to all programming languages. So I'm sure, you will be able to see programs as assembly code as just like Neo was able to see the world as code. It's really fun. You will discover the new world inside of the computer that is actually composed of many layers.
Learning assembly is like visiting the deep layers of computer, so it make you have intuition to understand and handle the complexities of a modern computer. I cannot say that you would be super programmer if you know the assembly.
But the excitement, I felt when I saw the inside of computer via assembly, drived me to the Linux kernel and computer architecture. I want more people to have the chance to see the other aspect of the computer world. Skip to content.
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