The following is a supplemental page for the CSE-240 course I was a TA for. The syllabus for the course is somewhat undefined and left mostly to the individual TAs. The course consists of five projects that stress a variety of topics. The projects are handed to the TAs the period before the students receive them. What I did for my students was to create these pages so they would have an example to work from. I believe it is important for the facilitator to provide examples that the student can dive into and have quick success (at least seeing that it is possible to get some of this code working). From there, the student should be required to do a great deal of design work and extension beyond to produce a final product. This page was created over the course of the semester and topics were grouped by as the semester progressed - this is not in the order it was taught. If I ever have the opportunity to TA this course again, I will be putting together a more solid syllabus with a rough timeline on it. Again, the links will not work from here. To find the "live" page please go here

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.

Getting Started

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




Deliverables and Documentation Standards

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




Batch Files

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




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




Organization of Code and Data

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




Resources

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




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