This is a specialized program that transforms "source" code written in a programming language into a low-level language, like assembly or the binary "machine code" that the CPU can directly process.

COURSE INSTRUCTORS: Prof. Russ Joseph (Winter) COURSE GOALS: To teach (1) the ARM32 processor architecture and programming, (2) assembly language directives, operators, and program structure, (3) ...

Fundamentals of computer systems programming, machine organization, and performance tuning. This course provides a solid background in systems programming and a deep understanding of low-level machine ...

Of course, once you get off the PC platform and start working in embedded systems [microcontrollers and the like], space and speed become very important. This is where assembly language is still a ...

9. Assembly An assembly line at IBM in 1959. Bettmann/Getty Images Assembly is a programming language that "speaks" as directly as possible to computers in their primary language: 0's and 1's.

Team 28 at Imperial College London certainly living up to the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s expectations with their bare metal assembly clone of Star Fox, aptly titled PiFox.