Assembly Language Programming for Intel Processors Family [Paperback]

Vasile Lungu (Author)

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Publication Date: July 1, 2005

ABOUT THE BOOK "Assembly Language Programming for INTEL processors family" presents the assembly language for the family of INTEL processors, from the 80286 processor to the Pentium 4 processor. All references made to 386, 486, and later processors of the INTEL family include, implicitly, the Pentium II, III, and IV processors. The first section the internal architecture of the processors: computer system architecture, from the application level to the computer component level; memory architecture; general organization and operating modes of the current superscalar processors, including examples from the INTEL family processors, from 80286 to PENTIUM 4 processors; instruction format of the Intel processors and the addressing modes used to obtain the operands. The second part contains a presentation of the assembly language, accompanied by numerous examples. Category: Programming Languages/Assembly User Level: Intermediate through advanced

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Vasile Lungu received his PhD from the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania, in 1996 with his thesis “Distributed systems based on microprocessors used in industrial process control.” He is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the university in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Previously, he was a chief engineer at Peripheral Equipment Enterprise in Bucharest, Romania, working for the Department of Electronic Systems Design. Since 1979, he has taught courses on computer architecture, high-level programming languages, Pascal, C, and assembly language programming. His research interests cover fields such as systems and algorithms for process control, real time systems, and parallel and distributed processing. He has written 18 technical reports on these research themes. Dr. Lungu has published 39 papers at national and international conferences and published 19 books and lecture notes on computer and processor architectures, high-level and assembly language programming, and industrial applications. Since 1999, Vasile Lungu has a collaborative appointment with the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research, being a counselor in the Department of Higher Education and Academic Research. He coordinated two large IT projects for the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research. He is an ACM member and a national expert evaluator for the National University Research Council (which is a member of the European Science Foundation).

Product Details

• Paperback: 578 pages
• Publisher: Teora USA, LLC (July 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594960364
• ISBN-13: 978-1594960369
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,118,427 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars You're probably better off with another text, June 10, 2007

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Thomas Dial (Westlake, OH 44145) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Assembly Language Programming for Intel Processors Family (Paperback)

It has been my experience that the best programming books teach by presenting increasingly sophisticated examples, starting perhaps with the ubiquitous "Hello, World!" and moving on to more complicated topics. In this book, however, the first significant programming example doesn't appear until page 229, over 1/3 of the way into the text.

While it is clear that the author is an expert on the topic, his presentation of the material leaves much to be desired. The book is also rife with typographical errors, and I felt that many of the diagrams were sloppy- both things that might be frustrating to a novice.

For a book on modern computer architecture, I'd suggest the classic text, "Computer Organization and Design" by Patterson and Hennessey. For Intel-specific assembly language programming, check out the book by Kip Irvine.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Lacks assembly language reference guides, July 25, 2008

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Berth-Olof Bergman (MARSTA Sweden) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Assembly Language Programming for Intel Processors Family (Paperback)

I don't know how these assembly language book authors think. But I will tell you what a great book about assembly language should contain.

On the Intel X86 architecture it should be divided in different chapters holding information of CPU instructions, FPU instructions, MMX and SSE instructions. In each chapter, the instructions described should be further divided by functionality, like aritmetic instructions, data movement instructions, logical operation instructions and so on.

There should also be two reference guides (appendixes) in the book for looking up instructions. The first guide with the same sorting as in the chapters above. For example, if you need a data packing instruction for MMX, you will look up the MMX part and "data packing instructions" subpart in the appendix. You will there find the instruction you need and everything about it. The second guide should have the instructions in alphabetical order, so you will be able to look up an instruction you know about by name and functinality, but do not remember all of it's semantics.

All this books about assembly language tends to be as bad electronic device manuals. You have to skim it from the beginning to end to find what you are looking for. If a book was written as described above, it would be useful for both beginners and professionals.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars x86 Architecture and Assembly language concentrate, August 30, 2007

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Pop Cristian Iuliu - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Assembly Language Programming for Intel Processors Family (Paperback)

This was my first ASM book I've bought: it was the first original edition in Romanian (didn't read the English translation yet).
I must agree that it has many typographical mistakes and some of the schematics are not very easy to understand.
It is made up of two parts the first one being the Intel processor architecture and the second the assembly language and integration with higher level languages (FPU, SIMD included).
By combining the information in this book and Ralf Brown's Interrupt list one can learn and do almost anything with x86 CPUs without waisting your time with unwanted details found in other ASM books.
If you are a beginner (never touched asm) you should consider reading this after you get bored with those thick ASM books and keep it as reference.