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    Computer Organization and

    Assembly Language

    Course Instructor:
    Mehr un Nisa

    1
    Overview
    • Introduction to Computer
    Organization
    • Welcome to Assembly Language
    • Assembly Language
    Applications
    • Virtual Machine Concepts

    2
    What do you know

     Computer Organization

     Assembly Language

    3
    Computer Organization

     Refers to Operational units and their


    interconnections
     i.e. hardware details
     Control Signals
     Interfaces between computer and peripherals
     Memory technology

    4
    5
    Assembly Language
    • Why am I learning Assembly Language?
    • What background should I have?
    • What is an assembler?
    • What hardware/software do I need?
    • What types of programs will I create?
    • What will I learn?

    6
    Welcome to Assembly Language

     Assemble parts of computer components

     Lies in between HLL and machine


    language

     Collection of Mnemonics(ADD, SUB, MOV,


    CALL)

    7
    Assembly Language Applications

    • Some representative types of applications:


    – Business application for single platform
    – Hardware device driver
    – Business application for multiple platforms
    – Embedded systems & computer games

    8
    Comparing ASM to High-Level Languages

    9
    Virtual Machine Concept

     Virtual Machines
     Specific Machine Levels

    10
    Virtual Machines
     Virtual machine concept
     Programming Language analogy:
     Each computer has a native machine language (language

    L0) that runs directly on its hardware


     A more human-friendly language is usually constructed

    above machine language, called Language L1

    • Programs written in L1 can run two different ways:


    • Interpretation – L0 program interprets and executes L1
    instructions one by one
    • Translation – L1 program is completely translated into an L0
    program, which then runs on the computer hardware

    11
    Translating Languages
    English: Display the sum of A times B plus C.

    C++: cout << (A * B + C);

    Assembly Language: Intel Machine Language:


    mov eax,A A1 00000000
    mul B F7 25 00000004
    add eax,C
    03 05 00000008
    call WriteInt
    E8 00500000

    12
    Specific Machine Levels

    (descriptions of individual levels


    follow . . . )

    13
    High-Level Language
     Level 4
     Application-oriented languages
     C++, Java, Pascal, Visual Basic . . .
     Programs compile into assembly
    language (Level 4)

    14
    Assembly Language
    • Level 3
    • Instruction mnemonics that have a one-to-
    one correspondence to machine language
    • Programs are translated into Instruction
    Set Architecture Level - machine
    language (Level 2)

    15
    Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)
     Level 2
     Also known as conventional
    machine language
     Executed by Level 1 (Digital Logic)

    16
    Digital Logic
    • Level 1
    • CPU, constructed from digital logic gates
    • System bus
    • Memory
    • Implemented using bipolar transistors

    17
    Levels

    HLL

    Assembly Code

    Object file

    Machine code

    Hardware

    18
    Q/A

    19

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