ARM ASSEMBLER
| Home computing pioneer honoured | | (from BBCi Sci-Tech news, 2007/12/30) | One of the designers of the classic BBC Micro computer has been recognised in the New Year Honours list.
Steve Furber, of the University of Manchester, was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).
He was honoured for services to computer science, which included work as a designer at the UK computer firm Acorn, the makers of the BBC machine.
The scientist also helped design the ARM processor, a type of chip that dominates mobile electronics. |
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| Are you Nikita? | An interesting-sounding person from Russia contacted me with the suggestion of being a penfriend. I wrote up a reply and sent it twice, but sadly both times that message bounced.
The response (with specifics munged) was:
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
nikitaxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.ru
SMTP error from remote mailer after end of data:
host imx2.xxxxxxxx.ru [xx.xx.88.6]: 550 5.1.7
<cm--hxxxxxk@merseymail.com>:
Sender address rejected: undeliverable address:
host mail.merseymail.com[193.110.243.35] said:
550-If the remote host is trying to do callback verification, or to deliver
a 550-DSN, it should be using the null sender, NOT postmaster@xxxxxxxx.ru.
This is 550-not a merseymail.com error, it's a problem that the administrators
of 550 xxxxxxxx.ru may be able to put right. (in reply to RCPT TO
If you are Nikita, please get in touch using an alternative address! |
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In front, an ARM610 (33MHz) processor and support circuitry on a RiscPC
processor card.
The RiscPC can accept two processors, the card behind the ARM being an
Intel 486SXL-40
also clocked at 33MHz. Note the incredible size difference between the
two processors.
On the left, an ARM710 processor card with a British 10 pence coin to give you an
idea of size.
On the right, the original series 80486 co-processor.
It gets rather hot, but not hot enough to require a heatsink or fan.
The ARM, on the other hand, gets most of its heat simply by being near the 486!
The other big chip on the co-processor card is the ASIC, a device to munge the 80486 I/O into
something that can interface with the ARM processor bus.
80x86 assembler for Pentium™, Celeron™ etc processors...
If a search engine brought you here, and you are looking for x86 assembler, then you are VERY
much in the wrong place!
Instead, you may find this resource useful .....
http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/.
The documents here relate to the low-power high-performance ARM
processors used in PDAs, mobile phones, laser printers, Gameboy Advance, and of course the RISC
OS computer range (formerly made by Acorn Computers, Cambridge, UK).
A lot of the detail relates to programming the ARM within the RISC OS environment, but it should
also serve as a general resource for those programming the ARM under any system. Please note,
however, that the 'Thumb' instruction set is not (yet) described.
Introduction
- News
There are no 'new!' markers here,
so be sure to read this to see what's new.
The instruction set
The ARM processor
The BASIC assembler
Relocatable Modules
Useful hints
APCS
32-bit operation
Mathematics co-processor
Hardware
Hackery
Can't find what you're after?
Examples
- Example 8: Rebound
...A game!
Demonstrates a stand-alone program, and floating point maths.
- Example 9: lowercase()
...Rewriting a commonly-used C function.
More interworking assembler and C.
(requires objasm v2.00, link v4.00, and cc v4.00 (or later))
See also:
- Example 101: Webite
...what better example than a web browser!
(well, sources for RISC OS would be nice - but... I'm sure!)
Opinion
Newsflash!
- My new computer!
I bought a programmer's RiscPC from CJE Micro's RISC OS Programmer's Initiative.
This is what I thought (in January 2001).
Links
- The Bush Internet box IBX-100
As the Bush box information is in /assembler/resources/, this lead some people to
figure that this is part of my assembler section. It isn't actually... But here's a link in
case you came here looking for it.
The reason why the pages are in with the assembler stuff is long and tedious. Don't ask.
If the downloads don't work...
Archives
IMPORTANT The archives are now in Zip Deflate format. Early versions of Spark and
PKUnZip may have difficulty in extracting these files. However SparkFS, SparkPlug (see link
below) and WinZip should handle them without problem.
This change has been brought around by the fact that several non-RISC OS users wished to view the
documents, there were difficulties with viewing the HTML directly from the archive (this works
fine with SparkFS), and Zip deflate compresses better than the Spark format (429K rather than
538K).
- Download SparkPlug v2.25 (84K) (by David Pilling)
To use this software:
- Set the filetype of the downloaded file to BASIC (&FFB), if it is not already.
- Change the current directory to where you would like SparkPlug to be written to. You
can skip this step if it is fine to temporarily write to the root of the currently
chosen drive.
- Double-click on the file to begin extraction.
A suggested alternative is to copy the splug/basic application into RAMdisc, type
*RAM (to select RAMdisc), then decompress to there, and finally to drag the
decompressed application to where you'd like it to be. You'll need a RAMdisc of at least
208K.
And finally...
Like the rest of heyrick.co.uk, this section was written entirely by hand with !Edit (a
fairly basic file editor); originally on a 4Mb A5000, latterly on a 32Mb RiscPC 710. No
specialised site development tools were used, and don't hold your breath waiting for fancy flash
introductions and whizzy Java front-ends. It ain't gonna happen. The content rules. Anything else
is only going to obscure the bigger picture. The top titles are in a purpley colour. That, and a
few pictures of sexy hardware, are about as fancy as it gets.
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