Assembly Language

Instructor:

殷堂凱, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
Office hours: Tuesday 2, 8 (preferred)
Office: 理工二 300-3
Phone: 0930-971803
Email: tkyin@nuk.edu.tw

TA:

Time:

Lectures: Wednesday 5-7

Location:

Lectures and Labs: 第一綜合教室 206

Objectives:

1. Writing assembly language programs running in the computers of the Intel IA-32 processor family.

2. Learning some basic principles of computer architecture, as applied to the Intel IA-32 processor family.

3. Learning how to interface assembly language code to C++ programs.

Lecture content:

1. Assembly language: Basic elements, data transfers, addressing, arithmetic, procedures, conditional processing, strings, structures, macros, Win-32 console programming, high-level language interface, 16-bit MS-DOS programming, BIOS-level programming

2. IA-32 processor microcomputer: Architecture, memory management

Lecture syllabus:  

　

Lecture	Date	Subject	Note
1	9/22	Basic concepts
2	9/29	IA-32 processor architecture	HW1 given
3	10/6	Assembly language fundamentals	HW1 due
4	10/13	Data transfers, addressing, and arithmetic
5	10/20	Procedures
6	10/27	Conditional processing	HW2 given (changed)
7	11/3	Integer arithmetic	HW2 due (changed)
8	11/10	Advanced procedures
9	11/17	Midterm exam
10	11/24	Strings and arrays
11	12/1	Structures and macros	HW3 given
12	12/8	32-bit windows programming
13	12/15	High-level language interface	HW3 due (changed)
14	12/22	16-bit MS-DOS programming	HW4 given
15	12/29	Disk fundamentals
16	1/5	BIOS-level programming	HW4 due (changed)
17	1/12	Projects demo	Project due
18	1/19	Final exam

Grade:

• Midterm (25%)
• Final (25%)
• Term project (20%)
• 4 Homework assignments (20%)
• Class attendance (10%)

Textbook:

Assembly Language for Intel-Based Computers, Fourth Edition, by Kip R. Irvine, Pearson, 2003. 全華代理