Lab Info

• YAK Info

  • YAK Kernel Specification

• 8086 Info

  • 8086 Assembly Language
  • 8086 Instruction Set
  • 8086 Interrupt Mechanism: 8259A PIC
  • C Calling Convention and the 8086

• Class Software Tools

  • Known Tool Problems
  • Building Programs with the Tools
  • C86 Compiler Features
  • NASM Syntax
  • Emu86 Manual

• Class Downloads

  • clib.s
  • clib.h
  • simptris.s
  • simptris.h

• uC/OS Info

  • The uC/OS real-time kernel

• C Help

  • C tutorials
  • Code example: TCBs, pointers, lists

• Linux Help

  • Setting Your Path
  • Scroll bars, command completion, tcsh, etc.
  • Emacs notes and tutorial links
  • Help with Make and Unix

Assigned Reading

• Michael Barr, "Fast Accurate Memory Test Suite", www.netrino.com [ download ]
• Karl Denninger, "HFT: The High Frequence Trading Scam", Seeking Alpha, 24 July 2009 [ download ]
• Anthony DiFranco, Andrew Petro, Emmett Shear, Vladimir Vladimirov, "Small vote manipulations can swing elections", CACM, October 2004 [ download ]
• David L. Dill, Bruce Schneier, Barbara Simons, "Voting and technology: who gets to count your vote?", CACM, August 2003 [ download ]
• Edward A. Lee, "Absolutely positively on time: what would it take", Computer, July 2005 [ download ]
• Charlene O'Hanlon, "A Conversation with Douglas W. Jones and Peter G. Neumann", Queue, November 2006 [ download ]
• Scott Patterson, Geoffrey Rogow, "What's behind high-frequency trading", The Wall Street Journal, 1 August 2009 [ download ]
• V. Prevelakis, D. Spinellis, "The Athens Affair", Spectrum, July 2007 [ download ]
• David B. Stewart, "Twenty-five common mistakes with real-time software development", Embedded Systems Conference, September 2006 [ download ]
• "The Impact of High-frequency Trading: Manipulation, Distortion or a Better-functioning Market?", Knowledge@Wharton, 30 September 2009 [ download ]

Additional Reading

• Kent Beck, "Embracing change with Extreme Programming", Computer, October 1999 [ download ]
• Christof Ebert, Capers Jones, "Embedded Software: Facts, Figures, and Futures", Computer, April 2009 [ download ]
• Jack G. Ganssle, "A guide to code inspections" [ download ]
• Edward A. Lee, "Computing Needs Time", CACM, May 2009 [ download ]
• N.G. Leveson, C.S. Turner, "An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents", Computer, July 1993 [ download ]
• Richard P. Mislan, "Cellphone Crime Solvers", IEEE Spectrum, July 2010, [ download ]
• Philip E. Ross, "The exterminators", IEEE Spectrum, September 2005 [ download ]
• Laurie A. Williams, Robert R. Kessler, "All I really need to know about pair programming I learned in kindergarten", CACM, May 2000 [ download ]