Introduction

This course is about computer organization and assembly languages. You might wonder why learning assembly languages in a modern world. After all, who will write assembly programs these days. Actually, people still write assembly for faster codes (compiler is not as smart as men yet), smaller codes (for devices with limited amount of memory such as mobile devices) and specific architectures (in which there are not even compilers, for example, early GPUs). With these in mind, in addition to the fundamentals about assembly programming, this course emphasizes on code optimization techniques on writing fast and small codes for specific architectures.

Recent updates

December 27, 2012	final project is assigned. It will be due on 1/21.
December 6, 2012	Slides for Intel are posted.
November 28, 2012	assignment #3 is assigned.
November 6, 2012	Slides for ARM are posted.
October 18, 2012	assignment #2 is assigned.
October 3, 2012	The midterm quiz has been scheduled on 10/31!
October 4, 2012	Assignment #1 is assigned and online. The due date is 10/17.
September 19, 2012	Slides for TOY are posted.
September 12, 2012	Slides for the first lecture are posted.
September 12, 2012	Subscribe via this website.
August 17, 2012	This webpage is up.