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1/6/2025

1/8/2025

• ESF Chapter 4, pp. 82 – 90
• MCU vs. MPU, Registers and Modes  (8:54)
• Instruction Sets and Embedded Systems  (25:15)
• Instruction Encoding and Assembly Language  (21:12)
• Register Use and Instruction Summary  (7:35)

• Cortex-M for Beginners – 2017_EN_v2
• Arm Architecture_v6m Ref. Manual
• Cortex-M0+ Device Generic User Guide
• Cortex-M0+ Technical Ref. Manual

• ESF Chapter 4, pp. 91 – 117
• Instructions  (1:21:11)
  • Pseudo Instructions
  • Memory Instructions (@0:05:19)
  • Stack Instructions (@0:34 :32)
  • Data Processing Instructions (@0:44:39)
  • Control Flow Instructions (@1:00:07)
  • Special Instructions (@1:14:40)

• ESF Chapter 5, pp. 120-127
• Introduction  (21:11)
  • Program Translation
  • Examining Disassembly Code (@5:12)
  • Warning about Optimizations (@12:02)
  • ABI (@19:56)

• ESF Chapter 5, pp. 128-129
• Memory Requirements  (58:03)
  • Concepts
  • Lifetime (@8:16)
  • Type and Class Qualifiers (@20:47)
  • Program use of RAM and ROM (@26:24)
  • Linker Map File (@44:20)

• Linker manual
• RW data compression  overview

• ESF Chapter 5, pp. 142-147
• Accessing Data  (42:06)
  • Overview
  • Statics (@1:24 and revisited at @11:30)
  • Automatics (@17:43)
  • Pointers (@33:49)
  • Arrays (@40:01)

• Assembler manual entry on literal pools 

• ESF Chapter 5, pp. 129 – 134
• Function Calls  (27:00)
  • Function Call Stack
  • Calling a Function and Using the Return Value (@8:33)
• Function Prolog and Epilog  (22:04)

• Procedure Call Standard IHI0042J_2020Q2_aapcs32

• ESF Chapter 5, pp. 134 – 141
• Control Flow  (21:46)

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1/27/2025

• Concepts and Analysis  (55:00)
  • Intro
  • Getting at the Object Code (@14:02)
  • Linker Map File (@16:27)
  • Function Calling Relationships (@22:46)
  • Control Flow (@27:18)

• Tools and Data Flow Analysis  (35:37)
  • Overview
  • Ghidra (@0:24)
  • Data Flow Analysis (@18:33)

• Ghidra Software Reverse Engineering Tool Suite  (more information on course References page)