Modern Assembly Language Programming with the ARM Processor

by Larry D Pyeatt Ph.D.

Overview

Modern Assembly Language Programming with the ARM Processor is a tutorial-based book on assembly language programming using the ARM processor. It presents the concepts of assembly language programming in different ways, slowly building from simple examples towards complex programming on bare-metal embedded systems.

The ARM processor was chosen as it has fewer instructions and irregular addressing rules to learn than most other architectures, allowing more time to spend on teaching assembly language programming concepts and good programming practice. In this textbook, careful consideration is given to topics that students struggle to grasp, such as registers vs. memory and the relationship between pointers and addresses, recursion, and non-integral binary mathematics. A whole chapter is dedicated to structured programming principles. Concepts are illustrated and reinforced with a large number of tested and debugged assembly and C source listings. The book also covers advanced topics such as fixed and floating point mathematics, optimization, and the ARM VFP and NEONTM extensions. PowerPoint slides and a solutions manual are included.

This book will appeal to professional embedded systems engineers, as well as computer engineering students taking a course in assembly language using the ARM processor.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128036983
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	04/27/2016
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	504
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Larry Pyeatt earned his doctorate in Computer Science, focusing on Artificial Intelligence, from Colorado State University in 1999. He spent 13 years as a professor at Texas Tech University before moving to the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 2012. He has programmed in over 15 assembly languages, from mainframes to 8-bit embedded systems, and teaches a variety of courses including assembly language, operating systems, computer architecture, and probabilistic artificial intelligence.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. GNU Assembly Syntax

3. Load/Store and Branch Instructions

4. Data Processing and Other Instructions

5. Structured Programming

6. Abstract Data Types

7. Integer Mathematics

8. Non-Integral Mathematics

9. The ARM Vector Floating Point Coprocessor

10. The ARM NEON Extensions

11. Devices

12. Pulse Modulation

13. Common System Devices

14. Running Without an Operating System

Index

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Quickly master good structured assembly language programming practices with this tutorial-based book that carefully explains the concepts of assembly language programming, slowly building from simple examples towards complex programming on bare-metal embedded systems