COP3402, Sections Covered for the Midterm

Chapter 1

• 1.1 Context of Assembly Language
  • All subsections
• 1.2 Data Representation
  • All subsections
• 1.3 Introducing Assembly Language
  • All subsections

Chapter 2

• 2.1 16-bit Intel Processor Architecture
  • All subsections
• 2.3 Operating System and Memory
  • 2.3.4 Video Display
  • 2.3.6 ROM
  • 2.3.7 Absolute Address Calculation
• 2.4 Components of a Microcomputer
  • 2.4.1 Internal Components
  • 2.4.3 Bus Architecture
  • 2.4.4 Video Adapter
  • 2.4.5 RAM
  • 2.4.6 Video RAM

Chapter 3

• 3.1 Basic Elements
  • All subsections
• 3.2 Sample Hello Program
  • All subsections
• 3.3 Assembling, Linking, Debugging
  • 3.3.2 MASM
• 3.4 Data Allocation Directives
  • All subsections
• 3.5 Symbolic Constants
  • 3.5.1 Equal-sign
  • 3.5.2 EQU
• 3.6 Data Transfer Instructions
  • All subsections
• 3.7 Arithmetic Instructions
  • All subsections
• 3.8 Basic Operand Types
  • All subsections

Chapter 4

• 4.1 More About the Assembler and Linker
  • 4.1.1 Source Listing File
  • 4.1.4 Memory Models
  • 4.1.5 Target Processor Directives
• 4.2 Operators and Expressions
  • 4.2.1 Arithmetic operators
  • 4.2.2 Offset, seg, type, ptr
• 4.3 JMP and LOOP
  • 4.3.2 LOOP

Chapter 5

• 5.5 MS-DOS Function Calls
  • 5.5.1 Output functions
    • 09h
    • Not listed: 4C, terminate program (see Appendix G.2)

Appendices

• Appendix A
  • All subsections
• Appendix G
  • G.2 Interrupt 21h Functions
    • 9
    • 4C

Web Pages

• Homework Assignments
• Running MASM
• Virtual Machine
• ASM_IO.INC
• Here is my entry for the phrase to remember the range for 32-bit numbers
  What is happening when everyone's simply waiting to encounter truth?
• Reading the output of the TRACE command in debug
• Calculating a 20-bit address
• An example for a symbol table
• Multilevel Computers
• Types of memory
• A history of Intel chips and their buses.
• Big Endian versus Little Endian
• Pipelining
• Branch Prediction
• Superscalar
• Cache