Syllabus:

A Conceptual Introduction to Microcomputers…….

Architecture and Assembly Language

PHY353/553 Fall ’09 (Credit Hours: 3)

Mondays/Wednesdays/Friday (11:30 am : 12:25 a p.m.)

Instructor: Professor M. S. Alam Physics 313 Phone: (518) 442-4535

T.A.: Liu Jian Ph: (518) 442-4547

1. History of the Microprocessor

2. Number Systems

3. The Conceptual Microcomputer System

4. Software Model of the 8088/8086 Microprocessor

• Family of Registers
• Internal Memory
• Addressing Modes
• Instruction Set

5. Programming Manual

6. Assembly Language Programming

• Program Structure Defining Pseudo-Ops
• Data Initializing Defining Psuedo-Ops
• Conditional Assembly Generating Pseudo-Ops
• Assembly Output Listing Pseudo-Ops
• Processor and Co-Processor Defining Pseudo-Ops

7. Multibyte Arithmetic

• Addition
• Subtraction
• Multiplication
• Division
• Square-root

8. Graphics

9. Music

10. Multimodular Programming

• Macros
• Subroutines
• Libraries
• Debugging