Assembly Language Programming

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to: (Knowledge Based) 1. understand basic assembly language syntax; 2. identify and use different 8086 addressing modes; 3. create and use a stack to store data, addresses, or both; and 4. highlight and know the uses of the different 8086 instruction groups. (Skills) 1. development of general programming skills; and 2. be able to run assembly language code.

Introduction: Language level of abstraction and effect on machine, characteristics of machine code, advantages, justifications of machine code programming, instruction set and dependency on underlying processor; Intel 8086 microprocessor assembly language programming: programming model as resources available to programmer, addressing modes, instruction format, instruction set- arithmetic, logical, string, branching, programme control, machine control, and input/output, etc; assembler directives, hand-assembling, additional 80x86/Pentium instructions; modular programming; interrupt and service routine; interfacing of assembly language to C; Intel 80x87 floating point programming; introduction to MMX and SSE programming; Motorola 680x0 assembly language programming; extensive practical engineering problems solving in assembly language using MASM for Intel, and cross-assembler for Motorola.