CS301 – Fall 2001

Prof. Hartman

Announcements:

12/7/01 Homework #10 (MMX instructions) is due Friday, December 14^th by 5:00 pm. The best web page on MMX and SSE instructions I’ve found is Tommesani.com Docs. Tommesani is apparently a company that has written a development environment called Quexal that sits over your compiler and lets you write code that uses MMS and SSE instructions.

12/3/01 Homework #9 (Hand assembly, i.e. encoding instructions) is due Friday, December 7^th by 5:00 pm. Today’s lecture was on the Itanium architecture, mostly from two web pages that you can find on the page of Pentium architecture links. (Yes, the Itanium doesn’t belong on a page of Pentium links, but in any case, its there, and the links are easy to find since they are the only two links with “Itanium” in the description.)

11/30/01 The handout on Encoding instructions is available if you missed class. The lecture was from the RISC vs. CISC article.

11/26/01 Homework #8 is due Friday, November 30^th by 5:00 pm.

11/12/01 Dr. Chappell’s lecture was on 6502 assembly language.

11/9/01 Things to review for Test #2 (which is on Friday, November 16^th)

11/7/01 I will be out of town all next week. On Monday, Dr. Chappell will give a guest lecture. On Wednesday I’d like you to meet in class and have a review session. I will be available via email to answer questions. On Friday will be your second test — Review material is available.

11/2/01 Homework #7 will be due Friday, November 9^th by 5:00 pm.

10/31/01 I went home sick, so no homework assignment or class

10/29/01 Adding NASM as a tool in Visual C++

10/22/01 Homework #6 is due Monday, October 29^th by 5:00 pm.

10/17/01 Homework #5 is due Monday, October 22^nd by 5:00 pm.

10/8/01 No homework this week, study for the test (Friday).

10/1/01 Homework #4 is due Monday, October 8^th by 5:00 pm.

9/24/01 Homework #3 is due Monday, October 1^st at 5:00 pm.

9/19/01 Homework #2 will be due Monday, September 24^th. Do Chapter 2 problems 3,4,6,7,8,9. In Chapter 3, do problems 3,4,6, and 7. Suggested: Do the rest of the problems referring to DEBUG in Chapter 3.

9/19/01 See Handout 3 for how to use NASM with Visual C++.

9/17/01 I found a more up-to-date NASM site. The link has been updated. Also, Brian Howard’s Assembly Language Tutorial is written in easy to understand terms, and Paul Carter’s PC Assembly Language is the text we should have used for this class.

9/12/01 Homework #1 will be due Monday, September 17^th by 5:00 pm. Do problems 4,5,6,7,8,11,12,20,21, and 22 in Chapter 1.

9/12/01 My office hours have changed. The new office hours are 3:00 – 4:30 on Tuesdays, and from 1:00 – 2:30 on Wednesdays. I will usually be around at other times also, and you can stop by or make an appointment at any time.

9/10/01 The TA for this class is Edward (Ryan) L’Herault (email fserl@uaf.edu). He will be in the Chapman computer lab from 3-5pm Mondays and Tuesdays, and 6-7pm on Thursdays.

9/7/01 Homework #0 is due Monday, September 10^th by 5:00 pm.

Links:

Dr. Chappell’s lecture on 6502 assembly language.
Developing Optimized Code with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0
My timing.cpp program, which demonstrates some loop optimizations and the timing code.
A whole page of Pentium architecture links.
The Intel Pentium Architecture documentation
The Intel Itanium Architecture documentation
NASM – the assembler we will be using in this class
A local copy of the NASM documentation.
Assembly language style guidelines – A good set of rules to follow to make your programs readable.
Randall Hyde’s Assembly Language Page – The author of an online text about Assembly Language Programming, Randall Hyde has links here to his book along with a ton of other useful 80x86 assembly information.
X86 assemblers – a page full of links about assemblers and assembly language programming.
A tutorial about DEBUG and 80x86 assembly language.
Brian Howard’s Assembly Language Tutorial – A useful beginners reference.
Paul Carter’s PC Assembly Language – the (online) text I wish I had used for this class.
Adding NASM as a tool in Visual C++

PowerPoint lecture slides – if you don’t have PowerPoint you can download a free viewer from Microsoft.

Chapter 1 – Numbers and representation in different bases; registers, memory, and architecture of 80x86 series chips.
Chapter 2 – Instruction addressing and execution, the stack.
Chapter 3 – Using DEBUG.
NASM – Chapter 4 in your book is about assembler directives and such using MASM. This set of slides covers the equivalent material using NASM.
For instructions on assembling and linking (Chapter 5 in your text is for MASM) see Handout 3.
Chapter 6 – An overview of most of the instructions for 80x86 chips.
Chapter 7 – Control structures, calling procedures, bitwise operations.
io_asm – Covers the I/O routines from Carter’s PC Assembly Language. You will be using these for your programming assignments.
Arrays and String Operations – Stuff from Chapter 14 and Chapter 11 in your text.
Week 5 – A few examples and other things we didn’t cover before.
Week 6 – Floating point format, Floating point instructions
MMX instructions – short presentation, but links to the Intel Documentation too.

Example code (Sometimes PowerPoint hyperlinks don’t work right):

The assembly part of my homework 6 solution.
Assembled ADD instructions, math.asm, prime.asm – Chapter 6 slide 24
regpassing.asm – Chapter 7 slide 13

stackpassing.asm – Chapter 7 slide 14
factorial.asm – Chapter 7 slide 19
local1.asm and local2.asm – Chapter 7 slide 20
bitcount.c, bitcount2.c, and bitcount3.c – Chapter 7 slide 32
array1.asm and array1c.c – Arrays and String Operations slide 9
memex.c and memory.asm – Arrays and String Operations slide 17
twodarray.asm and struct.asm – Week 5, slide 6
quadt.c, quad.asm, readt.c, read.asm, fprime.c, and prime.asm – Week 6, slide 41

Handouts

9/7/01 Handout 1 – Syllabus
9/7/01 Handout 2 – Homework #0
9/19/01 Handout 3 – Using NASM with Visual C++
9/19/01 Handout 4 – The Clueless Newbies Guide to Hello World in Nasm
11/30/01 Handout 5 – Encoding instructions