CMSC313, Computer Organization & Assembly Language Programming, Fall 2012

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Time & Place

• Section 01: Tu-Th 1pm – 2:15pm, ITE 229
• Section 02: Tu-Th 2:30pm – 3:45pm, ITE 233 229

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Course Material

• Contact Information
• Course Description
• Syllabus
• Homework Assignments
• Programming Projects
• Project Policy [slides]

Resources

• Null & Lobur Textbook Site
• Duntemann Textbook Site
• CMSC 313 Web Sites from previous semesters.

• Help with the submit command
• NASM on linux.gl.umbc.edu.
• NASM documentation in HTML, PDF, Postscript and plain text.
• Using gdb for Assembly Language Debugging.
• System Calls in Linux Assembly.
• C Function Call Conventions and the Stack
• Official NASM site
• Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer Manuals
• Local copies of 2004 Edition of IA-32 Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual
  1. Volume 1: Basic Architecture (3.1 MB)
  2. Volume 2A: Instruction Set Reference (A-M) (2.1 MB)
  3. Volume 2B: Instruction Set Reference (N-Z) (1.7 MB)
  4. Volume 3: System Programming Guide (5.5 MB)

• Essential C (A 45-page summary of the C language from the Stanford CS Education Library.)
• C FAQ Index
• Some C books, if you like textbooks. (These are optional and are cheap, if you buy used older editions.)
  • The C Programming Language: ANSI C Version, Kernighan & Ritchie, Prentice-Hall, 1988.
    ISBN: 0131103628.
  • Problem Solving And Program Design in C, Hanly & Koffman, Addison-Wesley. Fifth edition or later.
    ISBN: 0321409914, 0321535421, 0132936496.
  • C How to Program, Deitel & Deitel, Prentice-Hall. Fifth edition or later.
    ISBN: 0132404168, 0136123562, 013299044X.
  • C: A Reference Manual, Fifth edition, Harbison & Steele, Prentice-Hall, 2002.
    ISBN: 013089592X.
    Note: earlier editions do not cover C99.

• Logisim. A free Java logic simulator: download, documentation.
• Semiconductor Physics for Solid State Electronics (from the HyperPhysics website).
• Contemporary Logic Design by Randy Katz is apparently available on the web in HTML format:
  • Author's web site.
  • Some sort of mirror.