CSCI 224: Assembly Language Programming

Tentative Course Outline

Topics	Assignments	Labs
Getting started Basic elements of Assembly language Binary and hexadecimal systems Representation of numbers ASCII code Boolean functions
Intro to microcontrollers RISC vs. CISC arhitecture Microcontrollers vs. Microprocessors Getting started with Keil MicroVision IDE Creating a simple assembly project in Keil Resources and sample programs
Programming ARM microcontrollers Cortex-M4 architecture Addressing modes Instruction set Data moving instructions Resources and sample programs
Arithmetic, logic, and loops Performing ADD, SUB, MUL, AND, OR, XOR CMP instruction and its usage Branching instructions Resources and sample programs
Subroutines and recursion Call and return from subroutines Passing parameters in stack Saving the context, working with local variables Chain subroutine calls Returning values from subroutines Resources and sample programs
*** Midterm Exam I ***
Working with peripheral modules Programming GPIO Working with LE timers Working with RTCC Hardware PWM generation Resources and sample programs
Interrupt processing Internal and external interrupts ARM interrupt vector table Enabling the interrupts Interrupt handlers design Resources and sample programs
Working with communication interfaces Serial communication with UART Serial communication with I2C Reading environmental sesors data (temperature, humidity, pressure) Serial communication with SPI Reading accelerometometer and air quality data Resources and sample programs
*** Midterm Exam II ***
Working with floating point unit (FPU) Representation of floating point numbers Working with IEEE754 format for float Performung floating point calculations in CPU Intel floating point arithmetic Computing the reciprocals on AMD K6 Intel multiplication and division instruction timing Resources and sample programs
Fundamentals of C programming language Types, operations, and expressions Conditional processing Loops Functions and program structure Pointers, arrays, structures, and unions Bitfield manipulations Compiling and running C/C++ programs on Linux Using `printf()` and `sprintf()` Input and output in C Resources and sample programs
Microcontroller programming in C Register-based configuration of peripherals Using EMLIB API library Writing mixed C/Assembler codes Passing parameters to assembler functions in C Calling assembler functions from C Calling C functions from assembler Resources and sample programs
*** Final Exam ***