CSE240 Lecture Notes

Welcome to my CSE240 Lecture Notes. I hope you will find the following files helpful as you start working through this course. If you find any errors, inconsistencies, or vague areas, please email me. Before you start looking at my documents, I think you will find it very helpful to read most of chapter 2. Please note that these notes do not follow exactly what we covered in class, but are here to provide additional explaination of material that may not have been as lucid as it could have been. In otherwords, this is NOT a substitute for attending class. If you still have questions, please ask me or visit during my office hours.

1. Getting Started

• Important Rules
• Basic Data Types
• Framework for an Assembly Program
• Basic Instructions
• Logic Instructions
• Call, Int, Ret(f), Iret



2. Deliverables and Documentation Standards

• Documentation Standards - In-line
• Documentation Standards - Procedures
• Documentation Standards - Macros
• Sample Report
• Deliverables - includes Project Specifics and Due Dates



3. Batch Files

• Useful Batch Files - Simple Files
• Useful Batch Files - Library Based Files



4. The Hello World Example Collection

• Hello World - Introduction to ASM
• Hello World - Using a macro
• Hello World - Using two modules
• Hello World - .COM file (just how small can we make this)
• Hello World - Sample TSR



5. Organization of Code and Data

• Writing Procedures
• Writing Macros
• Writing Library Modules
• Multiple modules
• External Code and Data
• Organization Suggestions



6. Resources

• Art of Assembly
• Interrupt List
• Intel Instruction Set - gotta question about an instruction, it is answered best in here p50-500



7. Misc

• Effective Addresses
• The ASSUME directive explained
• Data Labels
• Get, Set, and Restore Interrupt Vectors
• Debugging by sound
• Using Turbo Debugger
• Common Errors
• Simple Optimizations
• Data Structures
• FPU
• Testing your Int09h Procedure
• Interrupt Macros