The objective of this chapter is to introduce the basics of the assembly language. Assembly language statements can either instruct the processor to perform a task, or direct the assembler during the ...

Assembly language provides several instructions to facilitate conditional execution. We have discussed some of these instructions like jmp and loop in Chapter 9. Our discussion here complements that ...

David Letterman made the top ten list famous. [Creel] has a top ten that should appeal to many Hackaday readers: the top 10 craziest x86 assembly language instructions. You have to admit that the ...

Once we’ve built a computer, the next step is to develop an assembly language and then an assembler that can assemble our programs. In my previous column, we introduced the concept of the big-endian ...

As I mentioned in Part 1 of this two-part mini-series, odd ideas are popping in and out of my head all the time, and every now and then I share my ponderings with the readers of Programmable Logic ...