TDT4258 - Lowlevel Programming

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Exercise 1

For this exercise, we were tasked with writing a palindrome finder in assembly.

The code should be able to run on a DE1-SoC emulator, that can be found at CPUlator.

ARM Assembly Resources

Source: Azeria Labs

StackOverflow - What are assembler section directives used for?

Exercise 2 - Cache Simulator

In this exercise, we were tasked with writing a cache simulator.

This should run on almost any machine with a proper C compiler.

There is a Makefile and a python script included, which builds both release and debug versions of the program, and tests it with some hardcoded values.

Run the tests by executing:

user@<...>/ex2 $ make test

Haskell variant

I tried writing a haskell clone of this program just for fun, but I ended up never finishing it.

The code exists within a separate folder.

Exercise 3 - Tetris on Raspberry Pi

NOTE: You will need a Raspberry Pi with a sense hat to run this code.

For this exercise, we were tasked with making an existing tetris program run on a sense hat, by writing directly to a Linux framebuffer, and reading joystick input from the Linux input driver.

Move both the Makefile and the code over to the raspberry pi before running.