Schedule, Lectures and Course Material

Topic

slides & resources

Week 1

• Introduction to Machine Language, Assembly Language and Applications

• x86 Architecture, Processor History, Registers, 16bit, 32bit and 64 bit architectures and basic commands

Lecture 1- Slides

Lecture 2- Slides

Week 2

• Object files, Libraries, The compiler and the Linker

• Compiling C to assembly

• Linking assembly and C

• Writing standalone assembly programs under linux

• Linking assembly with C

Week 3

• Binary, decimal, hex and octal numbers, conversion between them

• Signed integers, two's complement

• Carry & Overflow, the FLAGS Register,

• Extending bit size

Week 4

• Unconditional Jump, conditional jumps, comparisons

• Signed and unsigned Comparisons, Loop instructions

Week 5

• Working with memory, implementing global variables

• Little endian vs Big endian systems

• Multiplication and Division

Week 6

• CPU clock & frequency, clock cycles, and instruction timing

• Bit operations

• Shift and rotate operations,

• Bitwise AND, OR, NOT, XOR

• the test command

Week 7

• Introduction to subprograms/functions

• Indirect addressing, indirect jump

• The stack, the stack segment, the stack pointer register (ESP), push and pop commands

• Argument passing,

• call and ret commands

• indirect call, implementing pointers to functions

Week 8

• Calling conventions, calling conventions in C

• Implementing local variables on stack

• The base register (EBP)

Week 9

• Modular Programming in C and assembly

• Interfacing assembly with C

• Calling assembly routines from C

• Calling C routines in assembly

• the AT&T syntax

• Inline assembly

Week 10

• Recursion

• The C Preprocessor and Macros

• Netwide assembler Macros and Preprocessor

• Calling software interrupts

• System Calls

Week 11

• Implementing arrays

• General indirect addressing

• Load Effective Address

• Implementing 2D, 3D and N-D arrays, row-major vs column-major implementation

Week 12

• Segmentation

• string instructions

• Introduction to Interrupts

• Software vs Hardware interrupts

• Writing interrupt routines

Week 13

• Introduction to floating point

• The coprocessor, 8087 register stack, floating point instructions

Week 14

• Introduction to reverse engineering

• x86 instruction format

• self modifying code

• disassembling

• debugging and reassembling

Week 15

• C compiler optimization

• Short review of other topics

• IN/OUT comprogrammingmands

• Real-mode

• SIMD; MMX, SSE, AVX and FMA Instruction sets