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Computer Organization & Architecture LAB (CSBS-302)

The document discusses the ARM processor architecture. It provides an introduction to ARM programming including that ARM stands for Advanced RISC Machine, it is a 32-bit RISC processor, and its instruction set includes load/store architecture, 32-bit instructions/data/addresses, and 37 registers. The document also notes the need for ARM programming due to its 32-bit wide address and data buses and 4-byte words. Finally, it lists some common ARM assembly directives and their purposes.

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Computer Organization & Architecture LAB (CSBS-302)

The document discusses the ARM processor architecture. It provides an introduction to ARM programming including that ARM stands for Advanced RISC Machine, it is a 32-bit RISC processor, and its instruction set includes load/store architecture, 32-bit instructions/data/addresses, and 37 registers. The document also notes the need for ARM programming due to its 32-bit wide address and data buses and 4-byte words. Finally, it lists some common ARM assembly directives and their purposes.

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COMPUTER ORGANIZATION & ARCHITECTURE

LAB (CSBS-302)

TANYA GARG
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
INTRODUCTION TO ARM PROGRAMMING
 The first ARM processor was developed by Acorn Computers Limited, Cambridge,
England (October 1983 - April 1985).
 ARM stands for Advanced RISC Machine and initially it was known as Acorn RISC
Machine.
 ARM7 is a 32 bit RISC Processor Architecture developed by ARM Corporation.

 ARM Instruction set consists of following features:

 Load/Store Architecture

 32 bit instructions

 32 bit, 16 bit, 8 bit data

 32 bit addresses

 37 Registers

(30 - General Purpose registers out of which 15 are visible, 6 special purpose and 1 Program
Counter)
INTRODUCTION (CONTD…)
ARM is a RISC machine, i.e., it is a Reduced Instruction Set Computer, and as such, it
includes all the features of a RISC system:

 A large array of uniform registers


 A load/store model of data processing where operations can only be performed on
registers and not on the memory
 A small number of addressing modes
 Uniform, fixed-length instructions (32 bits)
NEED OF ARM PROGRAMMING

 Earlier processors had 16 bit wide address bus. That microprocessors could address
maximum 2^16 memory locations.
 ARM processor has 32 bit wide address bus which can address 2^32 memory
locations.
 In older computers there was 8 bit wide data bus but in ARM processor, data bus is
32 bit wide.
 Each location in ARM processor is a word that is 4 bytes long that means 32 bits.
ASSEMBLY DIRECTIVES OF ARM
Name of Directive Purpose
AREA Make a new block of Data or Code
ENTRY Declare an entry point where the execution starts
ALIGN Align Data or Code to particular boundary
DCB Allocate one or more bytes of data (8 bits)
DCD Allocate one or more words of data (32 bits)
DCW Allocate one or more half word of data (16 bits)
SPACE Allocate a particular size
FILL Allocate a block of memory and fill with a given value
EQU Give a symbol name to a numeric constant
RN Give a symbol name to a Register
EXPORT Declare a symbol and make it referable by other source file
IMPORT Provides a symbol defined outside the current resource file
INCLUDE/GET Include a separate source file within the current source file
PROC Declare the start of a procedure
ENDP Declare the end of a procedure
END Designate the end of source file

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