2012 CS 301 - Assembly Language

Announcements

• Final exam and course grades are on NetRun. It's been a fun semester!
• Your final draft of Project 2 is due on Blackboard anytime the day of the final exam, Friday December 13. The exam itself will be 3:15-5:15pm Friday in the usual classroom.
• Project 2 deadlines are posted; coming up are rough draft code by Monday on Blackboard, and in-class presentations Friday, December 7. Also see my project 1 final comments on NetRun
• HW7 is posted on NetRun, and due by Wednesday, November 21.
• HW6 was posted on NetRun, and due by Monday, November 12.
• Project 1 in-class presentations, and final drafts are due Wednesday, October 31 on Blackboard. (You'll have to log in to Blackboard first.) Along with the code, please include a short README.txt explaining who you are, what you did, and what platform & compiler you used.
• Project 1 rough draft *brief* grading comments, and suggestions for the final version, are posted on NetRun.
• The midterm exam was Wednesday, October 17; grades are on NetRun!
• HW5 was posted on NetRun, and due by Monday, October 15.
• HW4: beyond NetRun is due via BlackBoard by midnight Monday, October 8.  (The turn-in link probably won't work until you log in to Blackboard first.)
  
• HW3 was posted on NetRun, and due by Friday, September 28.
• HW2 was posted on NetRun, and due by Friday, September 21.
• HW1 was posted on NetRun, and due by Friday, September 14.
• HW0 was posted on NetRun, and due by Friday, September 7.
• Use your alaska.edu email address to get a NetRun account, then log in to NetRun, and HW0 should be listed at the bottom of the screen under CS 301 (Fall 2012). If you don't get your password, or you can get it but don't see CS 301 or HW0 listed, please email me!  

Links

• Lecture Notes:
  • 12_10_bio_nano, Computing with Atoms: Bio and Nano modified 2012-12-10
  • 12_05_review, Course Review for Final Exam modified 2012-12-03
  • 12_03_javascript, Computer Architecture of Web Browsers modified 2012-12-03
  • 11_30_GPU, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Programming in GLSL and CUDA modified 2012-11-30
  • 11_28_multicore, Programming Multicore with OpenMP modified 2012-11-28
  • 11_26_microcontroller, Microcontrollers modified 2012-11-28
  • 11_26_ARM, The ARM Instruction Set modified 2012-11-28
  • 11_21_quantum, The Future(?) of Quantum Computing modified 2012-11-21
  • 11_19_PowerPC, Differences in C++ and Assembly Language between x86 and PowerPC modified 2012-11-19
  • 11_16_macros, Preprocessor Macros in C++ and NASM modified 2012-11-15
  • 11_12_optimization, Making Code Faster modified 2012-11-12
  • 11_09_signals, Signals: Interrupts in Userspace modified 2012-11-09
  • 11_07_dynamic_translation, Building Machine Code at Runtime modified 2012-11-07
  • 11_05_mmap, Memory Map Manipulation modified 2012-11-05
  • 11_02_other_float, Three Generations of x86 Floating-Point Numbers: FPU, SSE, and AVX modified 2012-11-02
  • 10_29_parallel_float, Single Instruction, Multiple Data: SIMD in SSE modified 2012-10-29
  • 10_26_asm_float, Floating Point in x86 Assembly modified 2012-10-26
  • 10_24_weirdfloat, Bits in a Float, and Infinity, NaN, and denormal modified 2012-10-24
  • 10_22_float, Floating Point Numbers and Roundoff modified 2012-10-24
  • 10_19_fixedpoint, Fixed-Point: Fractions via Integer Arithmetic modified 2012-10-19
  • 10_15_midterm, Course Review for the Midterm Exam modified 2012-10-24
  • 10_12_multiprecision, Multi-Precision Arithmetic & "adc" Instruction modified 2012-10-12
  • 10_08_bitwisdom, Bitwise Operators modified 2012-10-08
  • 10_05_syscall, Interrupts, System Calls, and Protected Mode modified 2012-10-05
  • 10_01_link_with_cpp, Mixing Assembly and C++ Code modified 2012-09-28
  • 09_26_strings, Strings in Assembly modified 2012-09-26
  • 09_24_call_and_ret, Call vs Jmp: The Stack Connection modified 2012-09-24
  • 09_21_stack, Saving and Restoring Registers on "The Stack" modified 2012-09-21
  • 09_19_pointers, Pointers and Pointer Arithmetic modified 2012-09-16
  • 09_17_functions, Calling Functions from Assembly modified 2012-09-17
  • 09_14_signed, Negative Numbers, and Creative Misuse of Branch Instructions modified 2013-09-18
  • 09_12_jmp, Loops and Branches in Assembly modified 2012-12-14
  • 09_10_functions, Function Calling, and Preserved Registers modified 2012-09-10
  • 09_07_machinecode, Machine Code & Assembly Language modified 2012-09-07
  • 09_05_tables, Table-Driven Programming modified 2013-09-10
  • 08_31_bits, Bits and Hexadecimal modified 2012-08-31
• Course syllabus which includes dates to remember, the grading policy, and a course outline.
• Dr. Hartman's 2003 CS301 page has a good set of links to reference documentation.

Documentation

• 64-bit x86_64: Cheat Sheet and official ABI (function call and register info on page 21).   We'll mostly be covering 64-bit x86 assembly in this course. The Intel Software Developer's Manual is a 4000-page mega document giving the details of every register and every instruction for every mode of every x86 processor ever made by Intel. 
• 32-bit x86: Cheat Sheet.  For Linux, the System V ABI gives the calling convention on page 39.
• PowerPC: Cheat Sheet.
  
• Free C/C++ compilers:
  • On Windows, Microsoft Visual C++ is the standard compiler. Visual C++ "Express Edition" is free for download directly from Microsoft. There's a project VSyasm that provides the yasm assembler (used on NetRun) inside Visual Studio 2010. Visual Studio and VSyasm are already installed in the chapman computer lab.
  • Code::blocks is a free, downloadable Windows IDE based on gcc.
  • For Mac OS X machines, Apple's Xcode is the usual IDE. It's free from Apple. Internally, xcode calls gcc.
  • For Linux or other UNIX machines, you should either already have gcc/g++ installed, or else it should be easy to install from your distribution. In Ubuntu, "sudo apt-get install pentium-builder yasm".

O. Lawlor, lawlor@alaska.edu
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