Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

1/15

1/16

1/17
Lecture 1: Course goals; Course overview; history; review of binary number systems, 2's complement, and base conversion.

Lecture 1 (slides) - (pdf);
Reading: Hyde - Art of Assembly: forward and sections 1.0-1.3, 1.7.

1/18
MP0 assigned
HW0 assigned

1/19
Lecture 2: Computer system architecture; specifics on the 80x86 (registers, memory, peripherals).

Lecture 2 (slides) - (pdf);
Reading: Hyde - Art of Assembly: sections 3.0-3.1, 3.3.1-3.3.4, 4.2-4.3, 4.5.

1/20

1/21

1/22

1/23

1/24
Lecture 3: Programming with registers; assembly opcodes; addressing modes, NASM basics.

Lecture 3 (slides) - (pdf);
Reading: Hyde - Art of Assembly: sections 3.3.1-3.3.13, 4.1, 4.4, 4.6-4.8, 6.3, 6.5.1-6.5.5; Lab Notes - sections 5.1-5.5, 5.9, 5.11, 6.1-6.2.

1/25

1/26
Lecture 4: Logic and arithmetic operations, overflows & carries, flags settings, conditional branching.

Lecture 4 (slides) - (pdf);
Reading: Hyde - Art of Assembly: sections 6.1, 6.6, 6.9, 6.11; Lab Notes - sections 5.1-5.5, 5.9, 5.11, 6.1-6.2.

MP1 assigned
HW1 assigned

1/27
MP0 due 5:00pm
HW0 due

1/28

1/29

1/30

1/31
Lecture 5: Mapping loop/branch paradigms to linear code; multiplication; division; shift instructions.

Lecture 5 (slides) - (pdf);
Reading: Hyde - Art of Assembly: sections 6.5, 6.6, 6.9, 6.11.

2/1

2/2
Lecture 6: The stack: implementation, PUSH & POP operations, direct access, procedures.

Lecture 6 (slides) - (pdf);
Reading: Hyde - Art of Assembly: sections 6.3.5, 11.9.

2/3

2/4

2/5

2/6

2/7
Lecture 7: Procedures (cont.): passing arguments, recursion.

Lecture 7 (slides) - (pdf);
Reading: Hyde - Art of Assembly: sections 6.3.5, 11.

HW1 due

2/8

MP1 due 5:00pm

2/9
Lecture 8: Macros, arrays (single and multidimensional), lookup tables, hash tables, jump tables.

Lecture 8 (slides) - (pdf);
Reading: Hyde - Art of Assembly: sections 5.6, 8.14, 11.

MP2 assigned
HW2 assigned

2/10

2/11

2/12

2/13

2/14

Lecture 9: Interrupt vectors, software & hardware interrupts, 8259 PIC programmable interrupt controller.

Lecture 9 (slides) - (pdf);
Reading: Hyde - Art of Assembly: sections 3.5, 17.1, 17.4, 17.5.

2/15

2/16
Lecture 10: interrupts (cont.), example of implementing and installing an interrupt handler. Video display hardware, text video mode, controlling and accessing video display.

Lecture 10 (slides) - (pdf);
Reading: Hyde - Art of Assembly: sections 3.5, 17.1, 17.4, 17.5, and 23.1-23.3

2/17

2/18

2/19

2/20

2/21
Lecture 11: Mode 13h graphics; final projects (Final Projects);

Lecture 11 (slides) - (pdf);
Reading: Lab Notes section 11.2.

2/22

MP2 due 5:00pm

2/23
Lecture 12: Review session for Exam 1

HW3 assigned

2/24

2/25

2/26

2/27

2/28

EXAM 1 in Class

MP3 assigned

3/1

3/2
Lecture 13: Queues, arrays, lookup tables, jump tables; keyboard.

Lecture 13 (slides) - (pdf);
Reading: Hyde - Art of Assembly: sections 23.1-23.3.
Lab Notes – sections 7.2, 10.1.

3/3

3/4

3/5

3/6

3/7
Lecture 14: Real Mode revisited, introduction to Protected Mode, differences.

Lecture 14 (slides) - (pdf);
Reading: Lab Notes

HW3 due

3/8

HW4 assigned

3/9
Lecture 15: Floating point arithmetic & the floating point unit.

Lecture 15 (slides) - (pdf);
Reading: Hyde - Art of Assembly: sections 14; Protected mode tutorial.

Final Project Selection Form

3/10

3/11

3/12

3/13

3/14
Lecture 16: MMX MultiMedia
eXtensions; examples of using MMX instructions.

Lecture 16 (slides) - (pdf);

3/15

MP3 due 5:00pm

3/16
Lecture 17: protected mode libraries (PModeLib, MMX instructions – example of image dissolve using alpha blending; mouse.

Lecture 17 (slides) - (pdf);
Reading: Browse Intel MMX and AMD K6 MMX manuals. Lab Notes

MP4 assigned

3/17

HW4 due

3/18
Spring Break

3/19
Spring Break

3/20
Spring Break

3/21
Spring
Break

3/22
Spring
Break

3/23
Spring
Break

3/24
Spring Break

3/25
Spring Break

3/26
Spring Break

3/27

3/28
Lecture 18: Discussion of MP4: high resolution graphics; principles of generating fractals; installing mouse.

HW5 assigned

3/29

3/30
Lecture 19: Sound - Direct Memory Access (DMA), Digital Signal Processing (DSP), playing sound - example code

Lecture 19 (slides) - (pdf);
Reading: Lab Notes: sections 19 and A13; example code (pmodelib/examples)

3/31

4/1

4/2

4/3

4/4
Lecture 20: Review session for Exam 2

4/5

MP4 due 5:00pm

4/6
EXAM 2 in Class

4/7

HW5 due

4/8

4/9

4/10

4/11
Lecture 21: Bresenham’s line drawing algorithm; Bresenham’s circle drawing algorithm.

Lecture 21 (slides) - (pdf);
Reading: Hyde - Art of Assembly: sections: 6.8, 15.1.

4/12

4/13
Lecture 22: Interrupt topics: critical sections, scheduling, interrupt driven multitasking.

Lecture 22 (slides) - (pdf);
Reading: Hyde: Art of Assembly: chapters 18 and 19.

HW6 assigned

4/14

4/15

4/16

4/17

4/18
Lecture 23: Networking, broadcast vs. unicast, reliable broadcast, TCP, UDP.

Lecture 23 (slides) - (pdf);
Reading: Lab Notes: section A12; example implementation of TCP/UDP server and client (pmodelib/examples)

4/19

4/20
Lecture 24: Streaming SIMD extensions: (i) SIMD single-precision floating-point instructions, (ii) additional SIMD integer instructions, (iii) state management instructions.

Lecture 24 (slides) - (pdf);
Introduction to the Streaming SIMD Extensions, Intel.

4/21

HW6 due

4/22

4/23

4/24

4/25
Lecture 25: Processor-level detection and recovery, experimental assessment of processor failure behavior.

Lecture 25 (slides) - (pdf)

4/26

4/27
Lecture 26: Review session for
the Final Exam.

4/28

4/29

4/30

5/1

5/2
Lecture 27: Final project demonstrations.

Moved to Wednesday,
May 3, in the lab

5/3
Instruction Ends

5/4

5/5

5/6

5/7

5/8

5/9

5/10

Final EXAM
8:00-11:00 AM

5/11

5/12

5/13