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CS310 Introduction to Computer Systems, Fall'07

• Syllabus  
• Lecture notes
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
• Code in classroom
• Textbook's Web, downloading and configuring MASM
  • How to configure MASM 6.15 with TextPad
• A. M. Turing award 2006 (video)
• Assignments
  • Chapter 1 assignment (due: Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007): p.18-20,  #5 b, #15 a, #22 a and c, #23 a and c. Requirement: type both questions and answers.
  • Reading assignment - self-study (Tues., Sept. 25): click here for the class notes for chapter 2 (draft) 
  • Exercises (click here) 
  • Chapter 3 Assignment (Due: Thurs. Nov. 1) - hand in both hardcopies and softcopies of the codes and outputs.
    • Write an assembly code to calculate the average of numbers 1 -10 (32-bit)
    • P.77, #1
    • Justin's answer (subtractions; average). Raichel's answer (average)
  • Exercises: P.98, #6 and #7. P.104, #8
  • Exercises: P.142 #15
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• Topics covered:
  • Introduction to ASM; MS-DOS debug (a simple assembler)
  • Binary arithmetic (unsigned) 
  • Signed binary, two's complement notation
  • IA-32 architectures; instruction execution cycle
  • Explanations of assignment questions, processor mode, Intel 808x family
  • (9/20) Segment-offset address, flags - OV/NV, PL/NG, ZR/NZ, CY/NC
  • MS-DOS services, BIOS I/O functions
  • Test I and answer key
  • Chapter 3. Instructions, data types, and code
  • 32-bit and 16-bit assembly; data allocations in memory (byte-by-byte) and registers (AL, AX, EAX, etc.) 
  • Chapter 4. XCHG, MOV, ADD, NEG, etc. Direct-offset addressing
  • Worksheet (answer). Indirect addressing; loops
  • Loops. Review for Test II: worksheet answer key ; Ch5 - procedures
  • Test (A) answer key
  • More on procedures; boolean operations - AND, OR, XOR, NOT
  • Worksheet; conditional processing - CMP, JE, JG, JGE, JL, JLE. Ch10 Macros
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