[金牌原创]Course overview.ppt

Course overview Computer Organization and Assembly Languages Yung-Yu Chuang 2006/09/18 Logistics Meeting time: 9:10am-12:10pm, Monday Classroom: CSIE Room 102 Instructor: Yung-Yu Chuang Teaching assistants: 謝毓庭/黃子桓 Webpage: .tw/~cyy/assembly id / password Forum: .tw/~cyy/forum/viewforum.php?f=7 Mailing list: assembly@.tw Please subscribe via .tw/mailman/listinfo/assembly/ Prerequisites Programming experience with some high-level language such C, C ++,Java … Textbook Assembly Language for Intel-Based Computers, 5th Edition, Kip Irvine References Grading (subject to change) Assignments (50%) Class participation (5%) Midterm exam (20%) Final project (25%) Computer Organization and Assembly language It is not only about assembly. I hope to cover Basic concept of computer systems and architecture x86 assembly language Why taking this course? It is required. It is foundation for computer architecture and compilers. At times, you do need to write assembly code. Reasons for not using assembly Development time: it takes much longer to develop in assembly. Harder to debug, no type checking, side effects… Maintainability: unstructured, dirty tricks Portability: platform-dependent Reasons for using assembly Educational reasons: to understand how CPUs and compilers work. Better understanding to efficiency issues of various constructs. Making compilers, debuggers and other development tools. Hardware drivers and system code Embedded systems Making libraries. Accessing instructions that are not available through high-level languages. Optimizing for speed or space To sum up It is all about lack of smart compilers Faster code, compiler is not good enough Smaller code , compiler is not good enough, e.g. mobile devices, embedded devices, also Smaller code → better cache performance → faster code Unusual architecture , there isn’t even a compiler or compiler quality is bad, eg GPU, DSP chips, even MMX. Syllabus (topics we might cover) I