Introduction to Digital Circuits and Assembly Programming

1. Data representation

1.1.     Number systems

1.1.1.  Decimal, binary, octal, hexadecimal

1.1.2.  one and two’s complement arithmetic

1.2.     Character representation

1.2.1.  ASCII (others such as EBCDIC and Unicode may be introduced)

1. Gates and combinational circuits

2.1.     Simplification techniques

2.1.1.  Boolean algebra

2.1.2.  Karnaugh maps

2.1.3.  Brief survey of other (software) techniques

2.2.     Circuits

2.2.1.  Decoders and multiplexers

2.2.2.  ALU

1. Memory and sequential circuits

3.1.     flip-flops

3.2.     registers

3.3.     memory

3.4.     counters and synchronous circuits

3.5.     sequential machines and controllers

1. Computer architecture

4.1.     Machine cycles

4.1.1.  Fetch-decode-execute-increment PC

4.1.2.  instruction cycles and register transfer

1. Comparison of microprocessor families

5.1.     architecture

5.2.     instruction sets

1. Assembly language programming

6.1.     the assembler

6.2.     data transfer and addressing modes

6.3.     CPU states, flags, and logical operations

6.4.     branching and structured programming

6.5.     subroutines and parameter passing