ARM Assembly Language: Programming and Architecture

436 Pages·2013·5.14 MB·English

by  Muhammad Ali Mazidi, Sarmad Naimi, Sepehr Naimi, Janice Mazidi

ARM Assembly Language

Programming & Architecture

Muhammad Ali Mazidi

Sarmad Naimi

Sepehr Naimi

Janice Mazidi

Copyright © 2013 Mazidis and Naimis

All rights reserved

(A portion of this book was taken from “The 80x86 IBM PC & Compatible

Computers Vol 1 &2: 4th edition” and was previously published by Pearson Education,

Inc.)

“Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value.

Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable

mankind to benefit therefrom.”

Baha’u’llah

Dedication

To the faculty, staff, and students of BIHE university for their dedication and

steadfastness.

Preface

The ARM processor is becoming the dominant CPU architecture in the computer

industry. It is already the leading architecture in cell phones and tablet computers. With
such a large number of companies producing ARM chips, it is certain that the architecture
will move to the laptop, desktop and high-performance computers currently dominated by
x86 architecture from Intel and AMD. Currently the PIC and AVR microcontrollers
dominate the 8-bit microcontroller market. The ARM architecture will have a major
impact in this area too as designers become more familiar with its architecture. This book
is intended as an introduction to ARM assembly language programming and architecture.
We assume no prior background in assembly language programming with other CPUs.
However, we urge you to study Chapter 0 covering the fundamentals of digital systems
such as hexadecimal numbers, various types of memory, memory and I/O interfacing, and
memory address decoding. Chapter 0 is available free of charge on our website
http://www.MicroDigitalEd.com/ARM/ARM_books.htm

Universities and colleges

This book is intended for both academic and industry readers. The answers to

review questions at end of each section are provided at end of the chapter. If you are using
this book for a university course there are end-of-chapter problems that can be found on
www.MicroDigitalEd.com/ARM/ARM_books.htm

Our upcoming books in the ARM series

This book covers the Assembly language programming of the ARM chip. The ARM

Assembly language is standard regardless of who makes the chip. The ARM licensees are
free to implement the on-chip peripheral (ADC, Timers, I/O, …) as they choose. Since
the ARM peripherals are not standard among the various vendors, we have dedicated a
separate book to each vendor. The following books are planned in this series:

TI ARM Peripheral Programming and Interfacing

Freescale ARM Peripheral Programming and Interfacing

NXP ARM Peripheral Programming and Interfacing

Atmel ARM Peripheral Programming and Interfacing

The above books use C language to program the peripherals.

Finally, we would like to thank professors Shujen Chen, Rabah Aoufi, and Clyde

Knight for their reading of the book before publication. We sincerely appreciate their
insights and inputs. We would also like to thank Fada Mahmoudi, Mozhde Amiri, Keyvan
Roshani, Azalia Yaghini, Arash Zamani, Parham Fazlali, and Ashkan Farivar for sharing
their comments on the prepublication version of this e-book.

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