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Assembly Program by Taranjit Matharu Introduction My involvement in the group project was to write the assembly program. I wrote Instructions to enable the computer to communicate with the controller and do specific tasks, e.g. move forward, left or right. In the very early days of computing, a computer could only execute instructions such as machine code, which were instructions coded in 1s and 0s, which is a hard and long process. Assembly language was developed to eliminate the need to use binary codes for each instruction. Assembly language use mnemonic codes such as ADD, SUB and BRQ etc. I decided to use Assembly language rather than C, because I needed to write a program that will execute very quickly, and use very little space as possible, because the ROM/RAM size on the 8051 is very limited. I could have used C, which would also allow me to communicate with the serial port...

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