UMBC CMSC 313, Computer Organization & Assembly Language, Fall 2004, Section 0101

i386 Assembly Language I

Tuesday 09/14, 2004

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Assigned Reading in Murdocca & Heuring:   

Assigned Reading in Neveln:  3.10-3.13, 4.1-4.8

Assigned:  HW2

Due:  HW1

Slides (in PDF): Slides04.pdf

Topics Covered:

• Basic architecture of the Intel Pentium CPU.
• General purpose registers in the Pentium CPU and their uses.
• Moore's "Law" and the evolution of the Pentium architecture.
• i386 addressing modes.
• "Hello World" in assembly language (source code available below).

Programs shown:

The assembly language programs shown in class have the .asm extension. The corresponding file with the .txt extension is usually a transcript with sample runs.

• Hello world in assembly language: hello.asm and hello.txt.