Computer Organization and Assembly Language

Description
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The course aims at introducing the concepts of computer organization, digital logic design, and assembly language. Students will get a view of how to write programs with a low-level language and how to translate the programs to machine codes. The course will cover the following topics:

• Basic Concepts
• IA-32 Processor Architecture
• Assembly Language Fundamentals
• Data Transfers, Addressing, and Arithmetic
• Procedures
• Conditional Processing
• Integer Arithmetic
• Advanced Procedures
• Strings and Arrays
• Structures and Macros
• High-level Language Interface
• Assembler, Linker, and Loader
• Other Advanced Topics (optional)

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Instructor

Pu-Jen Cheng

Email: pjcheng@csie.ntu.edu.tw,

Homepage: http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~pjcheng

Office hours: R323, 9:00 am ~ 12:00 am, Friday

Class Hours: 9:10 am ~ 12:10 am, Thursday

Classroom: CSIE Room 102

Prerequisites: Basic programming concepts and skills 

Readings

Assembly Language for Intel-based Computers, 5th Edition, by Kip Irvine, Prentice-Hall, 2006

References

• Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective, by Randal E. Bryant and David R.O'Hallaron, Prentice Hall, 2002

• The Art of Assembly Language, by Randy Hyde, No Starch Press, 2003

• System Software: An Introduction to Systems Programming, 3rd Edition, by Leland L. Beck, Addison Wesley, 1996.

Grading: (tentative)

Assignments (55%)

Class participation (5%)

Midterm Exam (20%)

Final Exam (20%)

Forum: CSIE_ASM board at ptt.cc