ARM Assembly Language: Fundamentals and Techniques, 2nd Edition

Delivering a solid introduction to assembly language and embedded systems, ARM Assembly Language: Fundamentals and Techniques, Second Edition continues to support the popular ARM7TDMI, but also addresses the latest architectures from ARM, including Cortex™-A, Cortex-R, and Cortex-M processors—all of which have slightly different instruction sets, programmer’s models, and exception handling.

Featuring three brand-new chapters, a new appendix, and expanded coverage of the ARM7™, this edition:

• Discusses IEEE 754 floating-point arithmetic and explains how to program with the IEEE standard notation
• Contains step-by-step directions for the use of Keil™ MDK-ARM and Texas Instruments (TI) Code Composer Studio™
• Provides a resource to be used alongside a variety of hardware evaluation modules, such as TI’s Tiva Launchpad, STMicroelectronics’ iNemo and Discovery, and NXP Semiconductors’ Xplorer boards

Written by experienced ARM processor designers, ARM Assembly Language: Fundamentals and Techniques, Second Edition covers the topics essential to writing meaningful assembly programs, making it an ideal textbook and professional reference.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: An Overview of Computing Systems
Chapter 2: The Programmer’s Model
Chapter 3: Introduction to Instruction Sets : v4T and v7-M
Chapter 4: Assembler Rules and Directives
Chapter 5: Loads, Stores, and Addressing
Chapter 6: Constants and Literal Pools
Chapter 7: Integer Logic and Arithmetic
Chapter 8: Branches and Loops
Chapter 9: Introduction to Floating-Point : Basics, Data Types, and Data Transfer
Chapter 10: Introduction to Floating-Point : Rounding and Exceptions
Chapter 11: Floating-Point Data-Processing Instructions
Chapter 12: Tables
Chapter 13: Subroutines and Stacks
Chapter 14: Exception Handling : ARM7TDMI
Chapter 15: Exception Handling : v7-M
Chapter 16: Memory-Mapped Peripherals
Chapter 17: ARM, Thumb and Thumb-2 Instructions
Chapter 18: Mixing C and Assembly
Appendix A: Running Code Composer Studio
Appendix B: Running Keil Tools
Appendix C: ASCII Character Codes