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This book is intended to provide a highly motivating context in which to learn procedural programming language. The ultimate goal of this text is to lay a foundation that supports the multi-threaded style of programming and high-reliability requirements of embedded software. It presents assembly the way it is most commonly used in practice - to implement small, fast, or special-purpose routines called from a main program written in a high-level language such as C.
Key Topics: Data Representation. Implementing Arithmetic. Getting the Most Out of C. Programming in Assembly: Computer Organization. Data Manipulation. Control Structures. Programming in Assembly. Input/Output Programming. Foreground/Background Systems. Scheduling. Memory Management. Shared Memory. System Initialization. MARKET: For Computer Scientists, Computer Engineers, and Electrical Engineers involved with embedded software applications