Modern Assembly Language Programming with the ARM Processor, Second Edition is a tutorial-based book on assembly language programming using the ARM processor. It presents the concepts of assembly language programming in different ways, slowly building from simple examples towards complex programming on bare-metal embedded systems. The ARM processor was chosen as it has fewer instructions and irregular addressing rules to learn than most other architectures, allowing more time to spend on teaching assembly language programming concepts and good programming practice. Careful consideration is given to topics that students struggle to grasp, such as registers vs. memory and the relationship between pointers and addresses, recursion, and non-integral binary mathematics. A whole chapter is dedicated to structured programming principles. Concepts are illustrated and reinforced with many tested and debugged assembly and C source listings. The book also covers advanced topics such as fixed- and floating-point mathematics, optimization, and the ARM VFP and NEONTM extensions.
1. Chapter 1 Introduction - p. 1 2. Chapter 2 GNU assembly syntax - p. 35 3. Chapter 3 Load/store and branch instructions - p. 53 4. Chapter 4 Data processing and other instructions - p. 81 5. Chapter 5 Structured programming - p. 107 6. Chapter 6 Abstract data types - p. 143 7. Chapter 7 Integer mathematics - p. 173 8. Chapter 8 Non-integral mathematics - p. 222 9. Chapter 9 The ARM vector floating point coprocessor - p. 270 10. Chapter 10 The ARM NEON extensions - p. 301 11. 10.1: NEON intrinsics - p. 303 12. 10.2: Instruction syntax - p. 303 13. 10.3: Load and store instructions - p. 306 14. 10.4: Data movement instructions - p. 314 15. 10.5: Data conversion - p. 326 16. 10.6: Comparison operations - p. 328 17. 10.7: Bitwise logical operations - p. 332 18. 10.8: Shift instructions - p. 335 19. 10.9: Arithmetic instructions - p. 341 20. 10.10: Multiplication and division - p. 351 21. 10.11: Pseudo-instructions - p. 360 22. 10.12: Performance mathematics: a final look at sine - p. 363 23. 10.13: Alphabetized list of NEON instructions - p. 369 24. 10.14: Chapter summary - p. 371 25. Exercises - p. 371 26. Chapter 11 The ARM Thumb extensions - p. 373 27. Chapter 12 Devices - p. 413 28. Chapter 13 Pulse modulation - p. 442 29. Chapter 14 Common system devices - p. 453 30. Chapter 15 Running without an operating system - p. 478 31. Index - p. 513
Modern Assembly Language Programming with the ARM Processor, Second Edition is a tutorial-based book on assembly language programming using the ARM processor. It presents the concepts of assembly language programming in different ways, slowly building from simple examples towards complex programming on bare-metal embedded systems. The ARM processor was chosen as it has fewer instructions and irregular addressing rules to learn than most other architectures, allowing more time to spend on teaching assembly language programming concepts and good programming practice. Careful consideration is given to topics that students struggle to grasp, such as registers vs. memory and the relationship between pointers and addresses, recursion, and non-integral binary mathematics. A whole chapter is dedicated to structured programming principles. Concepts are illustrated and reinforced with many tested and debugged assembly and C source listings. The book also covers advanced topics such as fixed- and floating-point mathematics, optimization, and the ARM VFP and NEONTM extensions.
1. Chapter 1 Introduction - p. 1 2. Chapter 2 GNU assembly syntax - p. 35 3. Chapter 3 Load/store and branch instructions - p. 53 4. Chapter 4 Data processing and other instructions - p. 81 5. Chapter 5 Structured programming - p. 107 6. Chapter 6 Abstract data types - p. 143 7. Chapter 7 Integer mathematics - p. 173 8. Chapter 8 Non-integral mathematics - p. 222 9. Chapter 9 The ARM vector floating point coprocessor - p. 270 10. Chapter 10 The ARM NEON extensions - p. 301 11. 10.1: NEON intrinsics - p. 303 12. 10.2: Instruction syntax - p. 303 13. 10.3: Load and store instructions - p. 306 14. 10.4: Data movement instructions - p. 314 15. 10.5: Data conversion - p. 326 16. 10.6: Comparison operations - p. 328 17. 10.7: Bitwise logical operations - p. 332 18. 10.8: Shift instructions - p. 335 19. 10.9: Arithmetic instructions - p. 341 20. 10.10: Multiplication and division - p. 351 21. 10.11: Pseudo-instructions - p. 360 22. 10.12: Performance mathematics: a final look at sine - p. 363 23. 10.13: Alphabetized list of NEON instructions - p. 369 24. 10.14: Chapter summary - p. 371 25. Exercises - p. 371 26. Chapter 11 The ARM Thumb extensions - p. 373 27. Chapter 12 Devices - p. 413 28. Chapter 13 Pulse modulation - p. 442 29. Chapter 14 Common system devices - p. 453 30. Chapter 15 Running without an operating system - p. 478 31. Index - p. 513
