Assembly Language Programming: ARM Cortex-M3

ARM designs the cores of microcontrollers which equip most “embedded systems” based on 32-bit processors. Cortex M3 is one of these designs, recently developed by ARM with microcontroller applications in mind. To conceive a particularly optimized piece of software (as is often the case in the world of embedded systems) it is often necessary to know how to program in an assembly language.
This book explains the basics of programming in an assembly language, while being based on the architecture of Cortex M3 in detail and developing many examples.
It is written for people who have never programmed in an assembly language and is thus didactic and progresses step by step by defining the concepts necessary to acquiring a good understanding of these techniques.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Overview of Cortex-M3 Architecture
Chapter 2. The Core of Cortex-M3
Chapter 3. The Proper Use of Assembly Directives
Chapter 4. Operands of Instructions
Chapter 5. Instruction Set
Chapter 6. Algorithmic and Data Structures
Chapter 7. Internal Modularity
Chapter 8. Managing Exceptions
Chapter 9. From Listing to Executable: External Modularity