UMBC CMSC 313, Computer Organization & Assembly Language, Spring 2002, Section 0101

i386 Assembly Language I

Thursday 02/07, 2001

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Assigned Reading in Murdocca & Heuring:   

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

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Topics Covered:

• Recap IEEE-754 representation for floating point data.
• Floating point arithmetic.
• Recap system bus model and fetch execute cycle.
• Big-endian versus little-endian.
• Addressing modes: register, immediate, memory, indexed, index+base, indirect.
• Evolution of Intel i386 registers.