Randall Hyde has taught assembly language programming at the university level for more than a decade and his Web site, Webster: The Place on the Net to Learn Assembly Language Programming, is one of ...

In the days before computers usually used off-the-shelf CPU chips, people who needed a CPU often used something called “bitslice.” The idea was to have a building block chip that needed… ...

Max, I enjoyed reading your article. Interestingly, no one commented on microcode, which is “bare metal” programming. I learned about this in the mid-80's while microcode programming an Adage graphics ...

Like assembly language, C/C++ can manipulate the bits at the machine level, but it is also portable to different computer platforms. There are C/C++ compilers for almost all computers. See compiler.

Assembly language is a text representation of the machine code your CPU executes I’m no stranger to assembly languages, but I’m not sure I know a modern and defensible answer to this question.

The course is divided into 4 weeks. For week 1, it will teach the basics of Microprocessors and Assembly language Programming. Then in week 2, it will introduce you to C and Inline Assembly.

The notion of assembly language is as old as computing. Typically, assembly meant specific instructions for moving data around inside of a physical central processor. Everything in a computer is ...