Module: Bit Operations

Bit shifts and bit masks.

Learning Outcomes

Be able to develop assembly programs using a main classes of instructions and programming idioms.

Understand some of the relations between high-level programming languages and assembly language

Bit operations, logical shifts, arithmetic shifts, rotate shifts (PCASM Section 2.1)

Lecture notes Textbook reading

Masks, conditionals, max(a,b), (PCASM Sections 3.2, 3.3, 3.4)

Lecture notes Textbook reading

Programs from the lecture notes

asm code

Practice bit shifting and masking

Sample problems