CS 273 Lecture Notes

Preliminaries

• Basics of Instruction Execution
• Assembler Syntax
• Compiling, Linking, and Loading

• Arithmetic in Various Radixes
  • Introduction to Digital Logic and Boolean Algebra
  • Binary Numbers, Arithmetic, and Radix Conversions
  • Negative Numbers
  • HC11 Arithmetic Instructions
• HC11 Program Development
  • Getting Access to CS273 Software
  • Skeleton of an HC11 Program
  • Assembling
  • The Simulator
• Immediate, Direct, and Extended Addressing
• Branches and Flow of Control
• Example: Euclid's Algorithm
  A bit more on compiling code:
  • Overview of Compilation process
  • Translating Fundamental Program Structures to Assembly
  • Another Example of Compiling, Using a Flowchart
• Performance I: Cycle Counting
• Indexed Addressing
• Stacks
  • Stacks for Arithmetic
  • Review of Stacks
  • Stacks for Procedures
  • Passing Parameters
  • Procedure Details
  • Passing by-value and by-reference parameters
  • Detailed example: a device driver for the motor ports
• Hardware
  • Hello World for HC11 Mobile Robots: Bouncing Off Walls
  • HC11 Power Management
  • The Analog Port
  • The RESET Interrupt
  • Interrupts
  • The RTI Interrupt
  • Serial Communications
  • Advanced IO
• Character Encoding
• Advanced Arithmetic Topics
  • Multiplication and Division Instructions
  • Multiple-Precision Arithmetic
  • Multi-byte Multiplication
  • Binary Coded Decimal
  • Multiplication Algorithm
  • Division
  • Advanced Division
  • Floating Point
• Instruction Set Classification