This document provides an overview of a course on computer organization and assembly language. It introduces computer organization topics like operational units, control signals, and interfaces. It then discusses assembly language, explaining that it lies between high-level languages and machine language and uses mnemonics like ADD and MOV. It also covers virtual machine concepts, comparing different language levels from high-level languages down to digital logic.
This document provides an overview of a course on computer organization and assembly language. It introduces computer organization topics like operational units, control signals, and interfaces. It then discusses assembly language, explaining that it lies between high-level languages and machine language and uses mnemonics like ADD and MOV. It also covers virtual machine concepts, comparing different language levels from high-level languages down to digital logic.
This document provides an overview of a course on computer organization and assembly language. It introduces computer organization topics like operational units, control signals, and interfaces. It then discusses assembly language, explaining that it lies between high-level languages and machine language and uses mnemonics like ADD and MOV. It also covers virtual machine concepts, comparing different language levels from high-level languages down to digital logic.
This document provides an overview of a course on computer organization and assembly language. It introduces computer organization topics like operational units, control signals, and interfaces. It then discusses assembly language, explaining that it lies between high-level languages and machine language and uses mnemonics like ADD and MOV. It also covers virtual machine concepts, comparing different language levels from high-level languages down to digital logic.
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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
