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Assembly Language for Intel-Based
Computers, 5th Edition
Kip Irvine
Chapter 1: Basic Concepts
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Chapter Overview
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Welcome to Assembly Language
Virtual Machine Concept
Data Representation
Boolean Operations
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Welcome to Assembly Language
• Assembly language is the oldest programming
language.
• Of all languages, it bears the closest resemblance to
the native language of a computer.
• Direct access to a computer’s hardware
• To understand a great deal about your computer’s
architecture and operating system
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Some Good Questions to Ask [1/4]
• What background should I have?
• Computer programming (C++, C#, JAVA, VB…)
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What is an assembler?
• A program that converts source-code programs from
assembly language into machine language
• MASM (Microsoft Assembler), TASM (Borland Turbo
Assembler)
• Linker (a companion program of Assembler) combines
individual files created by an assembler into a single
executable program.
• Debugger provides a way for a programmer to trace the
execution of a program and examine the contents of
memory.
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Some Good Questions to Ask [2/4]
• What types of programs will I create?
• 16-Bit Real-Address Mode: MS-DOS, DOS emulator
• 32-Bit Protected Mode: Microsoft Windows
• How does assembly language (AL) relate to machine
language?
• One-to-one relationship
• How do C++ and Java relate to AL? E.g., X=(Y+4) *3
mov
add
mov
imul
mov
eax, Y
eax, 4
ebx, 3
ebx
X, eax
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Some Good Questions to Ask [3/4]
• What will I learn?
• Basic principles of computer architecture
• Basic Boolean logic
• How IA-32 processors manage memory, using real mode,
protected mode and virtual mode
• How high-level language compilers (such as C++)
translate statements into assembly language and native
machine code
• Improvement of the machine-level debugging skills (e.g.,
errors due to memory allocation)
• How application programs communicate with the
computer’s operating system via interrupt handlers,
system calls, and common memory areas
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Some Good Questions to Ask [4/4]
• Is AL portable?
• A language whose source program can be compiled and run
on a wide variety of computer systems is said to be portable.
• AL makes no attempt to be portable.
• It is tied to a specific processor family.
• Why learn AL?
• Embedded system programs
• Programs to be highly optimized for both space and runtime
speed
• To gain an overall understanding of the interaction between
the hardware, OS and application programs
• Device driver: programs that translate general operating
system commands into specific references to hardware details
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Assembly Language Applications
• Some representative types of applications:
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Business application for single platform
Hardware device driver
Business application for multiple platforms
Embedded systems & computer games
(see next panel)
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Comparing ASM to High-Level Languages
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What's Next
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Welcome to Assembly Language
Virtual Machine Concept
Data Representation
Boolean Operations
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Virtual Machine Concept
• Virtual Machines
• Specific Machine Levels
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Virtual Machines [1/2]
• Virtual machine concept
• A most effective way to explain how a computer’s hardware
and software are related
• In terms of programming languages
• 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
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Virtual Machines [2/2]
• In terms of a hypothetical computer
• VM1 can execute commands written in language L1.
• VM2 can execute commands written in language L2.
• The process can repeat until a virtual machine VMn can be
designed that supports a powerful, easy-to-use language.
• The Java programming language is based on the virtual machine
concept.
• A program written in the Java language is translated by a Java
compiler into Java byte code.
• Java byte code: a low-level language that is quickly executed at
run time by Java virtual machine (JVM).
• The JVM has been implemented on many different computer
systems, making Java programs relatively system-independent.
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Translating Languages
English: Display the sum of A times B plus C.
C++: cout << (A * B + C);
Assembly Language:
mov eax,A
mul B
add eax,C
call WriteInt
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A1 00000000
F7 25 00000004
03 05 00000008
E8 00500000
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Specific Machine Levels
High-Level Language
Level 5
Assembly Language
Level 4
Operating System
Level 3
Instruction Set
Architecture
Level 2
Microarchitecture
Level 1
Digital Logic
Level 0
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High-Level Language
• Level 5
• Application-oriented languages
• C++, Java, Pascal, Visual Basic . . .
• Programs compile into assembly language
(Level 4)
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Assembly Language
• Level 4
• Instruction mnemonics that have a one-toone correspondence to machine language
• Calls functions written at the operating
system level (Level 3)
• Programs are translated into machine
language (Level 2)
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Operating System
• Level 3
• Provides services to Level 4 programs
• Translated and run at the instruction set
architecture level (Level 2)
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Instruction Set Architecture
• Level 2
• Also known as conventional machine
language
• Executed by Level 1 (microarchitecture)
program
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Microarchitecture
• Level 1
• Interprets conventional machine
instructions (Level 2)
• Executed by digital hardware (Level 0)
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Digital Logic
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Level 0
CPU, constructed from digital logic gates
System bus
Memory
Implemented using bipolar transistors
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What's Next
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Welcome to Assembly Language
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Boolean Operations
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Data Representation
• Binary Numbers
• Translating between binary and decimal
• Binary Addition
• Integer Storage Sizes
• Hexadecimal Integers
• Translating between decimal and hexadecimal
• Hexadecimal subtraction
• Signed Integers
• Binary subtraction
• Character Storage
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Binary Numbers
• Digits are 1 and 0
• 1 = true
• 0 = false
• MSB – most significant bit
• LSB – least significant bit
MSB
• Bit numbering:
LSB
1011001010011100
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Binary Numbers
• Each digit (bit) is either 1 or 0
• Each bit represents a power of 2:
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Every binary
number is a
sum of powers
of 2
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Translating Binary to Decimal
Weighted positional notation shows how to calculate the
decimal value of each binary bit:
dec = (Dn-1  2n-1) + (Dn-2  2n-2) + ... + (D1  21) + (D0  20)
D = binary digit
binary 00001001 = decimal 9:
(1  23) + (1  20) = 9
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Translating Unsigned Decimal to Binary
• Repeatedly divide the decimal integer by 2. Each
remainder is a binary digit in the translated value:
37 = 100101
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Binary Addition
• Starting with the LSB, add each pair of digits, include
the carry if present.
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bit position:
carry:
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
(4)
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
(7)
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
1
(11)
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
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Integer Storage Sizes
byte
Standard sizes:
word
doubleword
quadword
8
16
32
64
What is the largest unsigned integer that may be stored in 20 bits?
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Hexadecimal Integers
Binary values are represented in hexadecimal.
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Translating Binary to Hexadecimal
• Each hexadecimal digit corresponds to 4 binary bits.
• Example: Translate the binary integer
000101101010011110010100 to hexadecimal:
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Converting Hexadecimal to Decimal
• Multiply each digit by its corresponding power of 16:
dec = (D3  163) + (D2  162) + (D1  161) + (D0  160)
• Hex 1234 equals (1  163) + (2  162) + (3  161) + (4  160), or
decimal 4,660.
• Hex 3BA4 equals (3  163) + (11 * 162) + (10  161) + (4  160), or
decimal 15,268.
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Powers of 16
Used when calculating hexadecimal values up to 8 digits
long:
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Converting Decimal to Hexadecimal
decimal 422 = 1A6 hexadecimal
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Hexadecimal Addition
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Divide the sum of two digits by the number base (16). The quotient
becomes the carry value, and the remainder is the sum digit.
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42
78
28
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6D
1
1
28
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80
6A
4B
B5
21 / 16 = 1, rem 5
Important skill: Programmers frequently add and subtract the
addresses of variables and instructions.
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Hexadecimal Subtraction
• When a borrow is required from the digit to the left, add 16
(decimal) to the current digit's value:
16 + 5 = 21
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C6
A2
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75
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2E
Practice: The address of var1 is 00400020. The address of the next
variable after var1 is 0040006A. How many bytes are used by var1?
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Signed Integers
The highest bit indicates the sign. 1 = negative,
0 = positive
sign bit
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1
1
1
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
Negative
Positive
If the highest digit of a hexadecimal integer is > 7, the value is
negative. Examples: 8A, C5, A2, 9D
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Forming the Two's Complement
• Negative numbers are stored in two's complement
notation
• Represents the additive Inverse
Note that 00000001 + 11111111 = 00000000
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Binary Subtraction
• When subtracting A – B, convert B to its two's
complement
• Add A to (–B)
00001100
– 00000011
00001100
11111101
00001001
Practice: Subtract 0101 from 1001.
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Learn How To Do the Following:
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Form the two's complement of a hexadecimal integer
Convert signed binary to decimal
Convert signed decimal to binary
Convert signed decimal to hexadecimal
Convert signed hexadecimal to decimal
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Ranges of Signed Integers
The highest bit is reserved for the sign. This limits the range:
Practice: What is the largest positive value that may be stored in 20 bits?
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Character Storage
• Character sets
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Standard ASCII (0 – 127)
Extended ASCII (0 – 255)
ANSI (0 – 255)
Unicode (0 – 65,535)
• Null-terminated String
• Array of characters followed by a null byte
• Using the ASCII table
• back inside cover of book
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Numeric Data Representation
• pure binary
• can be calculated directly
• ASCII binary
• string of digits: "01010101"
• ASCII decimal
• string of digits: "65"
• ASCII hexadecimal
• string of digits: “41"
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What's Next
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Welcome to Assembly Language
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Boolean Operations
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NOT
AND
OR
Operator Precedence
Truth Tables
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Boolean Algebra
• Based on symbolic logic, designed by George Boole
• Boolean expressions created from:
• NOT, AND, OR
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NOT
• Inverts (reverses) a boolean value
• Truth table for Boolean NOT operator:
Digital gate diagram for NOT:
NOT
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AND
• Truth table for Boolean AND operator:
Digital gate diagram for AND:
AND
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OR
• Truth table for Boolean OR operator:
Digital gate diagram for OR:
OR
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Operator Precedence
• Examples showing the order of operations:
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Truth Tables (1 of 3)
• A Boolean function has one or more Boolean inputs,
and returns a single Boolean output.
• A truth table shows all the inputs and outputs of a
Boolean function
Example: X  Y
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Truth Tables (2 of 3)
• Example: X  Y
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Truth Tables (3 of 3)
• Example: (Y  S)  (X  S)
S
X
mux
Z
Y
Two-input multiplexer
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Summary
• Assembly language helps you learn how software is
constructed at the lowest levels
• Assembly language has a one-to-one relationship
with machine language
• Each layer in a computer's architecture is an
abstraction of a machine
• layers can be hardware or software
• Boolean expressions are essential to the design of
computer hardware and software
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54 68 65 20 45 6E 64
What do these numbers represent?
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