An Introduction to Intel Assembly Language: to accompany Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture

This booklet is an introduction to Intel assembly language provided as supplementary material for readers of The Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture who desire a deeper examination of assembly language programming. The authors present the most popular subset of Intel assembly language instruction supported by the 80x86 instruction set architecture.

This supplement covers:

- The Intel Architecture: Processor types, registers, memory organization, and addressing modes
-Assembly Programming Environment: The programming process, elements of an assembly language
- 80x86 Instructions: Data movement, string handling and indexing, arithmetic, branching and control structures, and Boolean and bit manipulation.
- Procedures and Stacks: Procedure calling and parameter passing
- Input/Output: Brief coverage of character and string I/O as well as numeric I/O.

The authors included many program fragments to illustrate the use of the instructions introduced in this resource. Each chapter includes a set of review questions and short programming assignments intended to reinforce the most important ideas of the chapter. A summary of the instructions and addressing modes introducted in the text is provided in an appendix.