Assembly Language Programming : ARM Cortex-M3

Content: Cover
 Assembly Language Programming
 Title Page
 Copyright Page
 Table of Contents
 Preface
 Chapter 1. Overview of Cortex-M3 Architecture
 1.1. Assembly language versus the assembler
 1.2. The world of ARM
 1.2.1. Cortex-M3
 1.2.2. The Cortex-M3 core in STM32
 Chapter 2. The Core of Cortex-M3
 2.1. Modes, privileges and states
 2.2. Registers
 2.2.1. Registers R0 to R12
 2.2.2. The R13 register, also known as SP
 2.2.3. The R14 register, also known as LR
 2.2.4. The R15 or PC register
 2.2.5. The xPSR register
 Chapter 3. The Proper Use of Assembly Directives. 3.1. The concept of the directive3.1.1. Typographic conventions and use of symbols
 3.2. Structure of a program
 3.2.1. The AREA sections
 3.3. A section of code
 3.3.1. Labels
 3.3.2. Mnemonic
 3.3.3. Operands
 3.3.4. Comments
 3.3.5. Procedure
 3.4. The data section
 3.4.1. Simple reservation
 3.4.2. Reservation with initialization
 3.4.3. Data initialization: the devil is in the details
 3.5. Is that all?
 3.5.1. Memory management directives
 3.5.2. Project management directives
 3.5.3. Various and varied directives
 Chapter 4. Operands of Instructions
 4.1. The constant and renaming. 4.2. Operands for common instructions4.2.1. Use of registers
 4.2.2. The immediate operand
 4.3. Memory access operands: addressing modes
 4.3.1. The pointer concept
 4.3.2. Addressing modes
 Chapter 5. Instruction Set
 5.1. Reading guide
 5.1.1. List of possible \"condition\" suffixes
 5.2. Arithmetic instructions
 5.3. Logical and bit manipulation instructions
 5.4. Internal transfer instructions
 5.5. Test instructions
 5.6. Branch instructions
 5.7. Load/store instructions
 5.7.1. Simple transfers
 5.7.2. Multiple transfers
 5.7.3. Access to the system stack. 5.8. \"System\" instructions and othersChapter 6. Algorithmic and Data Structures
 6.1. Flowchart versus algorithm
 6.2. Alternative structures
 6.2.1. Simple (or shortened) alternative
 6.2.2. Complete alternative
 6.2.3. Special case of the alternative
 6.2.4. Multiple choice
 6.3. Iterative structures
 6.3.1. The Repeat ... Until loop
 6.3.2. The While ... Do loop
 6.3.3. The For ... loop
 6.4. Compound conditions
 6.4.1. Alternative with AND
 6.4.2. Iteration with AND
 6.4.3. Alternative with OR
 6.4.4. Iteration with OR
 6.5. Data structure
 6.5.1. Table in one dimension. 6.5.2. Tables in multiple dimensions6.5.3. Registration
 6.5.4. Non-dimensional table, character string
 6.5.5. Queue
 6.5.6. Stack
 Chapter 7. Internal Modularity
 7.1. Detailing the concept of procedure
 7.1.1. Simple call
 7.1.2. Nested calls
 7.1.3. \"Red wire\" example
 7.2. Procedure arguments
 7.2.1. Usefulness of arguments
 7.2.2. Arguments by value and by reference
 7.2.3. Passing arguments by general registers
 7.2.4. Passing arguments by a stack
 7.2.5. Passing arguments by the system stack
 7.2.6. On the art of mixing
 7.3. Local data
 7.3.1. Simple reservation of local data.