AoE’s ARM Assembly Edition is a two day course designed to introduce students with a background in programming to ARM assembly. Students are expected to possess a general knowledge of memory structures including the stack, procedures, and calling conventions. Knowledge of ARM-specific concepts is not required.

Starting with a brief comparison of RISC and CISC processors and the benefits of each, the class moves quickly to compilation and execution of code using the gcc editor and the GNU assembler (GAS). Using ARM hardware, students will learn to create and call user-defined functions as well as system calls through offsets into the syscall table. Networking and socket communication will be covered and students will create executable programs that communicate over an IP-enabled network. The course will culminate with the students creating a functional, multiplexed chat client and server.

Prerequisites

• AoE's x86 Assembly Edition or equivalent

Topics

1. Course Introduction
2. Background Review
3. Registers
4. Arithmetic Commands
5. Assemblers
6. Simple Memory Access
7. Calling Functions from C run-time Library
8. Using the syscall table
9. ARM I/O
10. ARM Memory
11. Conditional Execution (Branching)
12. ARM Pipelining
13. Conditional Instructions
14. ARM user-defined Procedures
15. Network Overview
16. Writing a Server
17. Memory Structures (Structs)
18. More on File Descriptors
19. Blocking Calls
20. Using Poll()
21. Writing a Client
22. Multiplexing a Server

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