Vehicle Parking Management System
COAL | MASM x86 Assembly Language Project
By Yasir Hussain
Note : Source.asm file contains all the code.
Working on projects is the best way to finalize and refine, what we learnt so far throughout the
semester.
Initially i couldn’t come up with any ideas so I decided to go the traditional way of
doing projects for any programming language and that is creating a Management system. So I
finalized parking management system to be the project written in x86 assembly language.
Doing it alone means I can work on my projects whenever and however I see fit and don’t need
to wait for response from project partners and that’s why I decided to do it alone.
I selected this project because it was easy to be found on internet as a sample project upon which I can build my own variation of it , the problem I faced was that (MASM + Irvine Library) isn’t used much in the world , majority people use either NASM assembly or x86 assembly without any linked libraries , so it was almost impossible to find a decent code to be used as sample for my project. I found a code written in NASM assembly and I needed to convert it to MASM equivalent of it , it took me some time to build the foundations then I kept adding features and improve my project due to built-in Irvine library functions and wrappers.
My Project provides basic and decent functionality for a Parking Management System , it can
1) Add Vehicles into Parking.
2) Remove Vehicles from Parking
3) It can count Vehicles as you Park them
4) It handles exceptions very well
5) It can Display the Record
6) It can delete all Records.
7) It can perform basic filling by storing the user name in a file.
*NOTE: User may experience Lag throughout the Program due to extensive use of Clrscr()
function in different scenarios of code.
Problem Analysis
A good Parking Management System would be able to add different types of Vehicle and Charge different amounts for each Vehicle. It should also keep track of Total Parking lots available so that User can’t exceed the Parking limit. Vehicles may depart too so it should also be able to Free up Parking place according to the scenario. It should be able to Display complete record including count of different vehicle types and Total amount to be charged for all Vehicles.
I took modular approach of programming for my project because assembly is a procedural language. I tried to make my code as maintainable as I could by adding comments and provide necessary spacing where needed. It performs all the functionalities and handles all kind of exceptions I mentioned above.
I implemented my Project in Visual Studio 2019 (Community Edition) linked with Irvine Library which contains advanced functions and wrappers to make my job easy as it is quite hard to make a project in pure assembly code. I kept testing my project at different steps of its production. As the code grew large and large, more time was spent in its debugging and bug fixing. But in the end I was able to fix all types of crashes and bugs that I experienced and my finalized project is working great. I would not call my Project in any ways the most optimized or even optimized code. Now a days, compilers have become so advanced that they generate far superior and most optimized code in assembly language then a human being could ever write. So aiming for most optimized code while working in assembly language is an almost impossible task if done by human.
To be honest, I initiated and completed the project in just span of Two days. The reason for that being the availability of sample code in NASM assembly which acted as a base for my project then I found motivation to keep improving the code and adding new features. It wasn’t easy at all but not so hard either.
After I finished working on my project. It ran smoothly and without any crashes at all. It guides the user on different steps of its execution, also I learnt that despite adding so much functionality The final size of my program was just 8.86KB which was insanely small. For the first time I felt like 1KB is a lot of memory, it is not hard to realize that the size of modern day programs are fairly justified for the amount of functionalities they provide. My code is open source and subject to improvement too, I will soon upload it on GitHub and take part in Open Source Community.
In the end, it was a great experience. I enjoyed it and got the chance to apply the basics of assembly into my project. I still need to practice a lot and learn regarding assembly language and its advanced topics. I hope that this project report gets read because I spent almost half an hour preparing it. That’s all for my concluding thoughts regarding this project
For Detailed Installation Steps, Kindly Refer to this Official Documentation,