Cursos de Assembly

An assembly (or assembler) language is the name given to any low-level programming language of which the instruction set has a high level of equivalence with its target hardware architecture’s machine code. Because of this high degree of correspondence, each assembly language is designed for a specific architecture, and sometimes, a specific operating system.

These languages have many features in common, including binary arithmetic, memory allocation, stack processing, character set encoding, and interrupt processing. This proximity with the processor and memory architecture makes assembly languages helpful to understand how computers operate deeply, so they are still taught in computer science, computer engineering, and electronic engineering programs.

Assembly languages close equivalence to machine code make them crucial to write device drivers and boot loaders, reverse engineering, and systems with limited high-level language support such as control systems and sensors.

Assembly languages allow for a level of hardware control that is not possible with high-level languages. Hence, they are often used where such control is desired for performance or safety reasons, such as in simulations, aeronautical, and medical systems.