Practical sessions and labs for Architecture course 2007 (preliminary)

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1. Tirgul: (week 1)
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- basic assembly instructions
- jump & loop instructions (for assignment 0)
- words, bytes, and bits
- registers
- flags
- ASCII code (reminder)
- label definitions
- assignment 0: add functions for various series

2. Lab: (week 2 or 3 - depending on group)
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- two simple programs to do:
	1. get string and convert numbers 0-9 to letters A-J.
	2. get list of hexadecimal numbers and print as ASCII string.
- Producing a listing and using it (e.g. to determine machine code length)
- stack
- combined program of C and assembly
- program to do:
	1. take C main simple file and assembly it.
	Observe parameters pass in C, compare to material given in class.
   Write a little program that uses C main, C function and assembly function:
   C main calls to assembly function, assembly function calls to C functin etc.

3. Tirgul: (week 4)
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- sections
- advanced instructions: shift, rotate, mul, jump, masking, branch
- work with memory
- work with strings


4. Tirgul: (week 5)
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- NASM macros
- disassembly
- basics of self-modifying code



5. Lab: (week 6 or 7 - depending on group)
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- co-routines
  * Basic scheme - implementation and testing:
    initializing and exiting the co-routines mechanism
  * Using the co-routine mechanism to develop a rudimentary
    threads package - introduction.

6. Tirgul: (week 8)
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- Basic independent position code (IPC).
- Introduction to homework exercise.


(Note, order of tirgul 8 and lab (7) have been changed around
due to constraints, and Hanuka)

8. Tirgul: (week 9)
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Advanced issues.

7. Lab: (week 10 or 11 - depending on group)
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- Worm


9. Tirgul: (week 12)
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- pipeline

10. Tirgul: (week 13)
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If we would cover all the material, it will be a tirgul hazara,
 i.e. questions from previous exams, etc.