Assembly

Assembly languages are a family of low-level languages for programming .microcontrollers. They implement a symbolic representation of the numeric machine codes and other constants needed to program a particular CPU architecture. This representation is usually defined by the hardware manufacturer, and is based on abbreviations (called mnemonics) that help the programmer remember individual instructions, registers, etc. An assembly language is thus specific to a certain physical or virtual computer architecture. In the case of FabLab we use the AVR line by Atmel.

Assembly language code files are usually given the extension ".asm"