ARM Assembly Language Programming & Architecture

1) This book is available in Kindle ebook format only and there will not be a printed version. For narrow screen devices, there are slight formatting issues and some program lines overflow. You DO NOT need Kindle hardware to use this book. Simply download free Kindle App from: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=dig_arl_box?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771

2) Who uses ARM?

Currently ARM CPU is licensed and produced by more than 100 companies and is the dominant CPU chip in both cell phones and tablets. Given its RISC architecture and powerful 32-bit instructions set, it can be used for both 8-bit and 32-bit embedded products. The ARM corp. has already defined the 64-bit instruction extension and for that reason many Laptop and Server manufactures are planning to introduce ARM-based Laptop and Servers.

3) Who will use our textbook?

The primary audience of our textbook on ARM (ARM Assembly Language Programming & Architecture by Mazidi & Naimi) is undergraduate engineering students in Electrical and Computer Engineering departments. It can also be used by practicing engineers who need to move away from 8- and 16-bit legacy chips such as the 8051, AVR, PIC and HCS08/12 family of microcontrollers to ARM. Designers of the x86-based systems wanting to design ARM-based products can also benefit from this textbook.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The History of ARM and Microcontrollers
Chapter 2: ARM Architecture and Assembly Language Programming
Chapter 3: Arithmetic and Logic Instructions and Programs
Chapter 4: Branch, Call, and Looping in ARM
Chapter 5: Signed Numbers and IEEE 754 Floating Point
Chapter 6: ARM Memory Map, Memory Access, and Stack
Chapter 7: ARM Pipeline and CPU Evolution
Appendix A: ARM Cortex-M3 Instruction Description
Appendix B: ARM Assembler Directives
Appendix C: Macros
Appendix D: Flowcharts and Pseudocode
Appendix E: Passing Arguments into Functions
Appendix F: ASCII Codes