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2022 - Midterm 2 Solution - Spring - COAL

This document is a midterm exam paper for the course 'Computer Organization and Assembly Language' at the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore Campus. It includes instructions for an open book exam, a set of short questions related to assembly language programming, and tasks involving subroutines and video memory manipulation. The exam is designed for BS (CS) students and consists of two main questions with specific requirements for coding and output formatting.

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2022 - Midterm 2 Solution - Spring - COAL

This document is a midterm exam paper for the course 'Computer Organization and Assembly Language' at the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore Campus. It includes instructions for an open book exam, a set of short questions related to assembly language programming, and tasks involving subroutines and video memory manipulation. The exam is designed for BS (CS) students and consists of two main questions with specific requirements for coding and output formatting.

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Name: ___________________ Roll Number: ___________________ Section: ___________________

National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore Campus


Course: Course
Computer Organization and Code: EE2003
Assembly Language Semester: Sp’2022
Program: BS (CS) Total Marks: 30
Duration: 60 Minutes Weightage: 15
Paper Date: May-2022 Page(s): 8
Section(s): All Section: _________
Exam: Midterm II Roll No: _________
Instruction/Notes:
▪ Exam is Open book, Open notes.

▪ Properly comment your code.

▪ You CANNOT use an instruction NOT taught in class.

▪ If there is any ambiguity, make a reasonable assumption. Questions during the


exam are not allowed.
▪ Write your answer in the space provided. You can take extra sheets BUT they
WON’T BE ATTACHED WITH THE QUESTION PAPER OR MARKED.
▪ All other rules pertaining to examinations as per NUCES policy apply.

Question 1 [15 Marks]: Short Questions

i. [3 marks] Consider a subroutine fibo that uses the stack to pass the parameters, and to return the
output values. The pseudocode for the subroutine is as follows:

int fibo(int x){


if (x==1 || x==0)
return x;
else
return fib(x-1)+fib(x-2);
}

In order to call the subroutine, you have to pass a parameter (size = 1 word), and return a result (size =
1 word). Write some assembly language statements that are required before and after calling this
subroutine.

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Name: ___________________ Roll Number: ___________________ Section: ___________________
sub sp, 2 ; create space for result on stack

push bx; assume that bx contains the input parameter

call fibo ; calling the subroutine

pop ax ; store the result in ax register

ii. [4 marks] Suppose that AX=0x1122, BX=0x0100, CX= 0x2341, and SP=0xffff. Give the contents of AX, BX, and SP
after executing the following instructions:

AX BX SP

push cx 0x1122 0x0100 0xfffd

push bx 0x1122 0x0100 0xfffb

xor ax, bx 0x1022 0x0100 0xfffb

pop bx 0x1022 0x0100 0xfffd

pop ax 0x2341 0x0100 0xffff

push cx 0x2341 0x0100 0xfffd

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Name: ___________________ Roll Number: ___________________ Section: ___________________

iii. [3 Marks] Consider the code given below and information on when keyboard was pressed during the
execution of this code, write out the sequence in which the instructions are executed. Each
executable instruction in code is numbered so your answer should be as follows:
Sample answer:
Instructions executed in following order
I11
I6
….
You also have to briefly explain the working of the program.

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Name: ___________________ Roll Number: ___________________ Section: ___________________
[org 0x0100] Order of execution:
I1 jmp start I1
I19
I2 kbisr: push ax INT9 handler is invoked
I3 push es I20-I27 (kbisr is hooked
for INT9)
I4 mov ax, 0xb800
I5 mov es, ax

I6 in al, 0x60
I7 cmp al, 0x2a
I8 jne nextcmp

I9 mov byte [es:0], 'L'


I10 jmp nomatch

I11 nextcmp: cmp al, 0x36


I12 jne nomatch

I13 mov byte [es:0], 'R'

I14 nomatch: mov al, 0x20


I15 out 0x20, al

I16 pop es
I17 pop ax
I18 iret

I19 start: xor ax, ax


;---assume that keyboard was pressed by user at this point
I20 mov es, ax
I21 cli
I22 mov word [es:9*4], kbisr
I23 mov [es:9*4+2], cs
I24 sti

I26 mov ax, 0x4c00


I27 int 0x21
iv. [5 Marks] In the code given below, we are copying the data of video memory from one location to
another using string instructions. As a result of the execution of this code, what will be the changes on
the screen?

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Name: ___________________ Roll Number: ___________________ Section: ___________________
[org 0x0100] loop1:
jmp start mov cx, 20
cld
movepixels: rep movsb
push ax add si, 140
push bx add di, 140
push cx
push si add bx, 1
push di cmp bx, 5
push es jne loop1
push ds
pop ds
mov ax, 0xb800 pop es
mov es, ax pop di
mov ds, ax pop si
mov si, 0 pop cx
mov di, 20 pop bx
mov bx, 0 pop ax
ret
; (code is continued in the second column)
start:
call movepixels

mov ax, 0x4c00


int 0x21

Solution: In the first five rows, the data displayed on the first 10 video memory cells is copied onto
the next 10 video memory cells.

Question 2 [15 Marks]: Draw a rectangle with the help of two given points i.e. A (xA, yA) and B (xB, yB).

i. [4 Marks] Before printing the rectangle, check that yA must be less than yB and xA must be less than xB.

ii. [3 Marks] Clear screen with white background.


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Name: ___________________ Roll Number: ___________________ Section: ___________________

iii. [8 Marks] Write a subroutine to print the boundary of the rectangle with blue dollar characters (ASCII= 24-
Hex,36-Decimal), and to fill red color inside of rectangle. Please note that the parameters should be
passed
through the stack.

Example 1:
Input: A (7, 8) and B (10, 11)

Output : (7,8)
$ $ $ $
$ $
$ $
$ $ $ $
(10,11)
Example 2:
Input: A (10, 11) and B (7, 8)
Output: No printing on screen

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