BIL220: Introduction to System Programming (2010-2011 Spring)

BIL 220, 2010-2011 Spring

Introduction to System Programming

Lectures:	Wednesday	09:00-11:45 @ D1 (Section 1)
	Thursday	09:00-11:45 @ D1 (Section 2)

Instructor: Aykut Erdem

Office: Dept. of Geomatics Engineering, 3rd floor

Dept. of Computer Engineering, 111

Office Hours:	Tuesday	13:00-14:30
	Friday	13:00-14:30

E-mail: aykut@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr

Teaching Assistant: Yigitcan Aksari

Office Hours:

Tuesday 14:00-17:00

E-mail: yaksari@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr

Course Description:

Assembly language general concepts. Source and object program. Re-entrant and re-executable program. Addressing techniques. Procedure definitions, procedure communication techniques, macro facilities. Operating system-assembly language connections: system calls. Programming techniques. Loaders, linkers. Microprogramming. One and two pass assemblers.

Prerequisites:

Students are expected to have prior experience in at least one structured high-level programming language, such as C, C++, Java, or Python.

Textbook:

Kip R. Irvine, Assembly Language for Intel Based Computers, 5th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2007, ISBN: 0132383101

References:

Peter Abel, IBM PC Assembly Language and Programming, 5th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2001, ISBN: 013030655X

Tentative Outline

Introduction to assembly language, virtual machine concept, data representation in computers, and Boolean operations
IA-32 processor architecture
Assembly language fundamentals
Data transfers, addressing modes, and arithmetic
Integer Arithmetic
Stack operation and procedures
Conditional processing
Strings and arrays
16-Bit MS-DOS Programming

Assignments Policy

There will be some written and programming assignments, which have to be done individually.

Grading Policy (Tentative)

HW 30%, Midterm 30%, Final %40

Syllabus (numbers in parentheses indicate related textbook sections)

Week	Topic
28/2	L1: Introduction; Basic Concepts (1.1-1.5)
	PDF (1 slide per page) \| PDF (6 slides per page)
7/3	No class
14/3	L2: IA-32 Processor Architecture and General Concepts (2.1-2.6)
	PDF (1 slide per page) \| PDF (6 slides per page)
21/3	L3: Assembly Language Fundamentals (3.1-3.7, Abel 2,3)
	PDF (1 slide per page) \| PDF (6 slides per page)
28/3	L4: Data Transfers, Addressing and Arithmetic (4.1-4.6)
	PDF (1 slide per page) \| PDF (6 slides per page)
4/4	L5: Procedures (5.1-5.2,5.4-5.7,8.1-8.3)
	PDF (1 slide per page) \| PDF (6 slides per page)
11/4	L6: Conditional Processing (6.1-6.8)
	PDF (1 slide per page) \| PDF (6 slides per page)
18/4	L7: Integer Arithmetic (7.1-7.8)
	PDF (1 slide per page) \| PDF (6 slides per page)
27/4	*Midterm*
2/5	L8: Strings and Arrays (9.1-9.5)
	PDF (1 slide per page) \| PDF (6 slides per page)
9/5	L9: 16-Bit MS-DOS Programming (13.1-13.4)
	PDF (1 slide per page) \| PDF (6 slides per page)
16/5	No class
23/5	L10: Floating-Point Processing (17.1-17.2)
	PDF (1 slide per page) \| PDF (6 slides per page)

8/6	*Final Exam*

Resources

Intel(R) 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manuals
Kip R. Irvine, Assembly Language Sources, http://kipirvine.com/asm/

Homework Assignments

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