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| "If you want to learn assembly you need to be motivated enough to do it |
| on your own. If you want to get good enough at reversing to work on |
| malware you will need to know assembly. That's all there is to it. Buy |
| a book and get started! |
| [...] |
| you won't learn assembly by coming to NSL once a month. You'll learn it '' |
| the Linux way (tm): by beating your face against a wall until it makes sense.'' |
| [...]'' |
| Go wild! All the assembly references posted here are helpful. Read as'' |
| much as you can before the next meeting : )"'''''- datagram''' |
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| ==Articles== |
| ::'''Title - Writing DOS utilities with DEBUG, part 1''' |
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| ::Author - Prosise, Jeff<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki> |
| ::PC Magazine |
| ::Sep 28, 1993 |
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| ::Abstract - Tips for using the DEBUG feature of DOS to create small assembly language programs |
| ::are offered. Programs can be written with an understanding of as few as a dozen assembly |
| ::language commands. |
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| ::'''Title - Writing DOS utilities with DEBUG, Part 2 |
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| ::Author - Prosise, Jeff |
| ::PC Magazine |
| ::Oct 12, 1993 |
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| ::Abstract - Three DOS programming services available through interrupt 21h are explained in a |
| ::discussion about programming small assembly language DOS utilities. Functions 2Ah, 2Ch and 30h |
| ::return the date, time and DOS version, respectively. |
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| ::'''Title - Writing DOS utilities with DEBUG, part 3 |
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| ::Author - Prosise, Jeff |
| ::PC Magazine |
| ::Oct 26, 1993 |
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| ::Abstract - Programming services available in the PC BIOS are discussed, focusing on the |
| ::functions in the BIOS, the logical "and" and "or" instructions, indirect addressing and loops. |
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| ::'''Title - Writing DOS utilities with DEBUG, Part 4 |
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| ::Author - Prosise, Jeff |
| ::PC Magazine''' |
| ::Nov 9, 1993 |
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| ::Abstract - Tips for incorporating logic into assembly programs written using DOS' DEBUG |
| ::miniassembler are offered. Command line parameters can be recognized using the methods described. |
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| Most likely Ziff-Davis will come down hard(DMCA takedown notice, at least) so don't advertise |
| --> |
| '''Download(PDFs for each article, password is ''"nullspace"''):''' |
| ::<nowiki>rapidshare link - https://rapidshare.com/files/3167923781/WDUWD_1-4.zip </nowiki> |
| ::<nowiki>verzend.be link - http://www.verzend.be/zk4xtkolf53x/WDUWD_1-4.zip.html </nowiki> |
| ::<nowiki>Crocko link - http://www.crocko.com/ECF5E935475B4C7896D36B75BEEE5930/WDUWD_1-4.zip </nowiki> |
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| ::'''Implementing a Tilt-Compensated eCompass using Accelerometer and Magnetometer Sensors''' |
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| ::Author - Talat Ozyagcilar<nowiki> </nowiki> |
| ::Freescale Semiconductor |
| ::Application Note Document Number: AN4248, Rev. 3, 01/2012 |
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| ::Abstract - An extremely useful introduction to integrating magnetometer and |
| ::accelerometer data in order to build a digital compass. Detailed |
| ::descriptions of how the math works, with most functions implemented in C# |
| ::Can be downloaded at |
| ::http://cache.freescale.com/files/sensors/doc/app_note/AN4248.pdf |
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| ==Books== |
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| ::'''Professional Assembly Language''' |
| :::http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Assembly-Language-Programmer/dp/0764579010 |
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| :::"Examples use C as a high-level language, Linux as the development environment, and GNU |
| :::tools for assembling, compiling, linking, and debugging " |
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| :::'''Comments''' |
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| :::'''NMI-'''''"There was another one from Wrox a number of years(DOS extender era) before this one'' |
| :::''that I liked. Can't remember the title off hand.'' |
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| :::''The first review mentions AT&T syntax only. So maybe not the best unless you're sticking with '' |
| :::'''gas' on Linux. Still it's positive on the basics."'' |
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| :::'''livinded-'''''"The fact that it's at&t and only focuses on linux isn't a huge issue and depending '' |
| :::''on what you're interested in may not even be an issue. I'm personally a fan of at&t syntax and have '' |
| :::''little to no interest in windows, but I will say that it's not horrible difficult to shift back and '' |
| :::''forth between intel and at&t, at least for reading assembly.'' |
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| :::'''datagram-'''''"I don't have too many books on assembly, but I would recommend'' |
| :::''Professional Assembly Language (AT&T syntax) and the Intel IA-32'' |
| :::''documentation (http://www.intel.com/products/processor/manuals/). It'' |
| :::''doesn't really matter which type of assembly you learn, but I'd'' |
| :::''recommend sticking with x86 and Intel or AT&T to make things easy (and'' |
| :::''applicable to the meeting). I personally like AT&T as a learning tool'' |
| :::''because it is easy to distinguish between registers, literal values,'' |
| :::''and memory locations (this was one of the stumbling blocks at the'' |
| :::''meeting, too). Aside from that there's no real difference in the same'' |
| :::''way that there's no huge difference between little endian and big'' |
| :::''endian. I've grown accustomed to AT&T just because most of the Linux'' |
| :::''tools use that by default.'' |
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| ::'''Assembly Language Step-by-Step: Programming with DOS and Linux''' |
| :::http://www.amazon.com/Assembly-Language-Step---step-Programming/dp/0471375233/ |
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| :::'''Comments''' |
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| :::'''NMI-'''''"The Duntemann book. Uses NASM(Netwide Assembler). I've heard good things about this one,'' |
| :::''but never really looked at it. '' |
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| ::'''Introduction to 80x86 Assembly Language and Computer Architecture''' |
| :::http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Assembly-Language-Computer-Architecture/dp/0763772232/ |
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| :::'''Comments''' |
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| :::'''NMI-'''''"The price is insane(~$75), but used it's tolerable(~$11). The first review says "When you '' |
| :::''finish the book, you may understand assembly, but you won't know what to do with it (or what you can '' |
| :::''do with it). Nor is it thorough enough to be used as a reference material for work. It omits quite a '' |
| :::''few processor instructions that I feel are important to know for reference."'' |
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| :::''The other two are much more positive."'' |
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| ::'''Dr. Paul Carter's PC Assembly Tutorial''' |
| :::See below 'Web sites' for link |
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| :::'''From the author:''' ''"I grew frustrated at teaching 16-bit real mode programming and'' |
| :::''decided to change to 32-bit protected mode. However, I soon ran into a'' |
| :::''problem. I could not find a textbook that covered 32-bit protected'' |
| :::''mode assembly programming! So, I decided to write my own. I also did'' |
| :::''not want students to have to go out and buy expensive software for the'' |
| :::''course. I decided to base the course on the free NASM (Netwide'' |
| :::''Assembler) and the free GNU gcc compiler (however, any 32-bit C'' |
| :::''compiler would work). Another advantage of these choices was that'' |
| :::''students could use Windows, Linux or FreeBSD to develop on. (In fact,'' |
| :::''I use Linux for my main development platform.)'' |
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| == PCB Design == |
| http://www.compliance-club.com/pdf/DesignTechniquesPart1.pdf |
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| http://www.compliance-club.com/pdf/DesignTechniquesPart2.pdf |
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| http://www.compliance-club.com/pdf/DesignTechniquesPart3.pdf |
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| http://www.compliance-club.com/pdf/DesignTechniquesPart4.pdf |
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| http://www.compliance-club.com/pdf/DesignTechniquesPart5.pdf |
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| http://www.compliance-club.com/pdf/DesignTechniquesPart6.pdf |
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| ==Web Sites== |
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| ::http://www.sandpile.org/ |
| ::''sandpile.org - The world's leading source for pure technical x86 processor information.'' |
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| :::'''Comments' |
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| :::'''CharlieX-'''''"[It] covers just about everything on the PC asm/hardware side."'' |
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| ::http://grayscale-research.org/new/asmdb.php |
| ::''Ruiner had a hellish 3 days and mapped out every possible valid instruction call, enjoy/download the fruits of his labor'' |
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| ::http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/tech.shtml |
| ::''Paul Hsieh's Tech Page'' |
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| :::'''Comments''' |
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| :::'''CharlieX-'''''"Paul hsieh has a few old but good articles, with lots of links."'' |
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| ::http://www.drpaulcarter.com/pcasm/ |
| ::''Dr. Paul Carter's PC Assembly Tutorial'' |
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| :::'''Comments''' |
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| :::'''skout-'''''"I like his writing style, it was easy to follow, also it is free to '' |
| :::''download. A full ASM course, read this and then hit up the intel docs and your'' |
| :::''well on your way."'' |
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| :::'''livinded-'''''"Having read the book, there were a few issues I had with it and '' |
| :::''the author. First of all there is an abstraction library that wraps a bunch of '' |
| :::''functionality up into it which is used throughout the book. While you'll learn assembly '' |
| :::''a lot of the work is done for you in this sense and really takes away from diving in and '' |
| :::''learning it well. Secondly, while attempting to discuss a couple of possible errors I '' |
| :::''found in the book, the author never responded."'' |
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| ==Analog Stuff== |
| ::[http://www.ti.com/lit/an/sloa093/sloa093.pdf Filter design in 30 seconds] - From the TI website |
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