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Teaching of IA-32 Assembly Language Programming Using Intel® Galileo

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Emerging Technologies for Education (SETE 2017)

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Most universities are still using microprocessor training board that equipped with Intel® 8086 to introduce students about assembly language and computer architecture due to its popularity and availability. The Intel® 8086 is the first x86 microprocessor, it is no longer suitable to introduce students to the modern x86 architecture. A new microprocessor that featured modern architecture design is needed to maintain the competency of university students to keep pace with the fast advancing computer technology. Intel® Galileo is a single board computer board that equipped with Intel® QuarkTM X1000 SoC. We successfully developed new approach for programming the device using assembly language. Supporting lab materials, example codes, macros, and procedures are developed to incorporate the Intel® Galileo board into the laboratory experiments design for microprocessor course. The proposed laboratory experiments allow undergraduate students to learn IA-32 instruction sets and protected mode programming. The results from pre-post-test and quantitative survey shows that Intel® Galileo board is effective to support the learning of the IA-32 assembly language and computer architecture.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Mr. Ong Wen Jian from Intel Microelectronics Malaysia and Mr. Lim Yang Wei from University Putra Malaysia (UPM), for their participation in this project to enable the assembly programming on the Intel® Galileo board.

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  1. University Putra Malaysia, 43400, Serdang, Malaysia

    Tan Chee Phang, Shaiful Jahari b. Hashim, Nurul Adilah bt. Abdul Latiff & Fakhrul Zaman Rokhani

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  1. National Taichung University of Science and Technology, Taichung City, Taiwan

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  2. City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Rynson Lau

  3. Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

    Yueh-Min Huang

  4. University of Caen Normandie, Caen, France

    Marc Spaniol

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Phang, T.C., Hashim, S.J.b., Latiff, N.A.b.A., Rokhani, F.Z. (2017). Teaching of IA-32 Assembly Language Programming Using Intel® Galileo. In: Huang, TC., Lau, R., Huang, YM., Spaniol, M., Yuen, CH. (eds) Emerging Technologies for Education. SETE 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10676. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71084-6_27

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