ARM Assembly Language: Fundamentals and Techniques

by Hohl; William

• ISBN13: 9781439806104
• ISBN10: 1439806101
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-03-13
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

This volume gives computer science professionals and students an edge, regardless of their preferred coding language. The book examines code relevant to hardware and peripherals found on today's microcontrollers and looks at situations all programmers will eventually encounter.

Table of Contents

An Overview of Computing Systems

History of RISC

The Computing Device Number Systems

Representations of Numbers and Characters Translating Bits to Commands

The Tools Exercises

The ARM7 TDMI ProgrammerG++s

Model Data Types

Processor Modes Registers

Program Status Registers

The Vector Table Exercises

First Programs

Shifting Data

Factorial calculation

Swapping Register Contents

Programming guidelines

Exercises

Assembler Rules & Directives

Introduction Structure of Assembly Language modules

Predefined register names

Frequently used directives

Macros Miscellaneous Assembler Features

Exercises

Loads, Stores and Addressing

Introduction

Memory Load and Stores- the Instructions Operand Addressing Endianness

Exercises

Constants and Literal Pools

The ARM Rotation Scheme

Loading Constants into Registers

Loading Addresses into Registers

Exercises Logic and Arithmetic Flags and Their Use Comparison Instructions

Data Processing Instructions

Fractional Notation Exercises

Loops and Branches Branching Looping More on Flags

Conditional Execution

Straight-line Coding

Exercises Tables

Lookup Tables

Jump Tables

Binary Searches

Exercises

Subroutines and Stacks

The Stack Subroutines Passing Parameters to Subroutines

The ARM APCS Exercises

Exception Handling Interrupts

Error Conditions Processor exception sequence

The Vector Table

Exception Handlers

Exception Priorities Procedures for Handling Exceptions

Reset Exception Undefined Instructions Interrupts

Aborts SWIs Exercises

Memory-mapped Peripherals

The LPC2104

The UART

The Memory Map

Configuring the UART

Writing data to the UART

Putting the code together

Running the code

The LPC2132 The D/A Converter

The Memory Map

Configuring the D/A Converter

Generating a Sine Wave Putting the code together

Running the Code Exercises Thumb

Thumb opcodes

Differences between ARM and Thumb

Thumb Implementation and use

How to compile for Thumb Exercises

Mixing C and Assembly Introduction

Inline assembler

Embedded assembler

Calling between C and assembly Exercises

The ARM v4T Instruction Set

Running Keil Tools Introduction

Creating a Project and Selecting a Device

Creating Application Code

Building the Project and Running Code

ASCII character codes

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