Computer Architecture & Low-Level
From Transistors to Operating Systems
Understand computers from the ground up — digital logic, processor design, instruction pipelines, memory hierarchies, assembly programming, build systems, and kernel internals.
6 Series
124 Articles
75 Hours
Assessment
48 min read
Digital logic, ALUs, pipelines, caches, virtual memory, multiprocessors, and GPU architecture.
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Comp Arch Assembly
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Digital logic, ALUs, pipelines, caches, virtual memory, multiprocessors, and GPU architecture.
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Comp Arch Cache Memory Hierarchy
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Digital logic, ALUs, pipelines, caches, virtual memory, multiprocessors, and GPU architecture.
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Comp Arch Capstone Projects
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Digital logic, ALUs, pipelines, caches, virtual memory, multiprocessors, and GPU architecture.
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Comp Arch Case Studies
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Digital logic, ALUs, pipelines, caches, virtual memory, multiprocessors, and GPU architecture.
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Comp Arch Compilers
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Digital logic, ALUs, pipelines, caches, virtual memory, multiprocessors, and GPU architecture.
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Comp Arch Cpu Pipelining
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Digital logic, ALUs, pipelines, caches, virtual memory, multiprocessors, and GPU architecture.
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Comp Arch Cpu Scheduling
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Digital logic, ALUs, pipelines, caches, virtual memory, multiprocessors, and GPU architecture.
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Comp Arch Deadlocks
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Digital logic, ALUs, pipelines, caches, virtual memory, multiprocessors, and GPU architecture.
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Comp Arch Digital Logic
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Digital logic, ALUs, pipelines, caches, virtual memory, multiprocessors, and GPU architecture.
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Comp Arch File Systems
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Digital logic, ALUs, pipelines, caches, virtual memory, multiprocessors, and GPU architecture.
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Comp Arch Foundations
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Digital logic, ALUs, pipelines, caches, virtual memory, multiprocessors, and GPU architecture.
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Asm Part00 Environment Setup
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x86-64 and ARM assembly — instructions, addressing modes, system calls, and optimization.
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Asm Part01 Fundamentals
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x86-64 and ARM assembly — instructions, addressing modes, system calls, and optimization.
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Asm Part02 Cpu Architecture
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x86-64 and ARM assembly — instructions, addressing modes, system calls, and optimization.
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Asm Part03 Registers
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x86-64 and ARM assembly — instructions, addressing modes, system calls, and optimization.
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Asm Part04 Instruction Encoding
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x86-64 and ARM assembly — instructions, addressing modes, system calls, and optimization.
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Asm Part05 Nasm
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x86-64 and ARM assembly — instructions, addressing modes, system calls, and optimization.
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Asm Part06 Masm
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x86-64 and ARM assembly — instructions, addressing modes, system calls, and optimization.
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Asm Part07 Memory Addressing
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x86-64 and ARM assembly — instructions, addressing modes, system calls, and optimization.
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Asm Part08 Stack Calling
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x86-64 and ARM assembly — instructions, addressing modes, system calls, and optimization.
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Asm Part09 Control Flow
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x86-64 and ARM assembly — instructions, addressing modes, system calls, and optimization.
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Asm Part10 Arithmetic
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x86-64 and ARM assembly — instructions, addressing modes, system calls, and optimization.
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Asm Part11 Floating Point
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x86-64 and ARM assembly — instructions, addressing modes, system calls, and optimization.
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01 Architecture History
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ARM-specific assembly — Thumb, NEON SIMD, exception handling, and bare-metal coding.
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02 Arm32 Instructions
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ARM-specific assembly — Thumb, NEON SIMD, exception handling, and bare-metal coding.
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03 Aarch64 Registers
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ARM-specific assembly — Thumb, NEON SIMD, exception handling, and bare-metal coding.
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04 Arithmetic Logic
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ARM-specific assembly — Thumb, NEON SIMD, exception handling, and bare-metal coding.
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05 Branching Loops
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ARM-specific assembly — Thumb, NEON SIMD, exception handling, and bare-metal coding.
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06 Stack Subroutines
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ARM-specific assembly — Thumb, NEON SIMD, exception handling, and bare-metal coding.
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07 Memory Caches
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ARM-specific assembly — Thumb, NEON SIMD, exception handling, and bare-metal coding.
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08 Neon Simd
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ARM-specific assembly — Thumb, NEON SIMD, exception handling, and bare-metal coding.
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09 Sve Sve2
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ARM-specific assembly — Thumb, NEON SIMD, exception handling, and bare-metal coding.
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10 Floating Point
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ARM-specific assembly — Thumb, NEON SIMD, exception handling, and bare-metal coding.
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11 Exception Levels
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ARM-specific assembly — Thumb, NEON SIMD, exception handling, and bare-metal coding.
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12 Mmu Virtual Memory
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ARM-specific assembly — Thumb, NEON SIMD, exception handling, and bare-metal coding.
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Assessment
31 min read
Process scheduling, virtual memory, file systems, device drivers, and kernel modules.
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Kernel Dev Phase 00 Orientation
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Process scheduling, virtual memory, file systems, device drivers, and kernel modules.
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Kernel Dev Phase 01 Boot Process
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Process scheduling, virtual memory, file systems, device drivers, and kernel modules.
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Kernel Dev Phase 02 Real Mode
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Process scheduling, virtual memory, file systems, device drivers, and kernel modules.
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Kernel Dev Phase 03 Protected Mode
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Process scheduling, virtual memory, file systems, device drivers, and kernel modules.
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Kernel Dev Phase 04 Display Input
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Process scheduling, virtual memory, file systems, device drivers, and kernel modules.
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Kernel Dev Phase 05 Interrupts
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Process scheduling, virtual memory, file systems, device drivers, and kernel modules.
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Kernel Dev Phase 06 Memory
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Process scheduling, virtual memory, file systems, device drivers, and kernel modules.
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Kernel Dev Phase 07 Filesystem
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Process scheduling, virtual memory, file systems, device drivers, and kernel modules.
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Kernel Dev Phase 08 Processes
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Process scheduling, virtual memory, file systems, device drivers, and kernel modules.
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Kernel Dev Phase 09 Elf
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Process scheduling, virtual memory, file systems, device drivers, and kernel modules.
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Kernel Dev Phase 10 Stdlib Shell
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Process scheduling, virtual memory, file systems, device drivers, and kernel modules.
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Assessment
45 min read
Build automation, dependency resolution, cross-compilation, and toolchains.
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01 Build Systems Foundations
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Build automation, dependency resolution, cross-compilation, and toolchains.
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02 Targets Prerequisites Execution
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Build automation, dependency resolution, cross-compilation, and toolchains.
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03 Variables Expansion Scope
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Build automation, dependency resolution, cross-compilation, and toolchains.
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04 Automatic Variables Pattern R...
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Build automation, dependency resolution, cross-compilation, and toolchains.
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05 Built In Functions Make Language
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Build automation, dependency resolution, cross-compilation, and toolchains.
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06 Conditionals Configurable Builds
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Build automation, dependency resolution, cross-compilation, and toolchains.
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07 Automatic Dependency Generation
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Build automation, dependency resolution, cross-compilation, and toolchains.
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08 Compilation Workflow Libraries
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Build automation, dependency resolution, cross-compilation, and toolchains.
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09 Project Architecture Multi Di...
35 min read
Build automation, dependency resolution, cross-compilation, and toolchains.
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10 Cross Compilation Toolchains
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Build automation, dependency resolution, cross-compilation, and toolchains.
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11 Parallel Builds Performance
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Build automation, dependency resolution, cross-compilation, and toolchains.
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Assessment
35 min read
Real-time systems, bare-metal programming, RTOS, and firmware architecture.
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Android Architecture
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Real-time systems, bare-metal programming, RTOS, and firmware architecture.
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Android Bsp
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Real-time systems, bare-metal programming, RTOS, and firmware architecture.
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Android Hal
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Real-time systems, bare-metal programming, RTOS, and firmware architecture.
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Autosar
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Real-time systems, bare-metal programming, RTOS, and firmware architecture.
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Debugging
47 min read
Real-time systems, bare-metal programming, RTOS, and firmware architecture.
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Device Drivers
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Real-time systems, bare-metal programming, RTOS, and firmware architecture.
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Fundamentals
45 min read
Real-time systems, bare-metal programming, RTOS, and firmware architecture.
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Kernel
38 min read
Real-time systems, bare-metal programming, RTOS, and firmware architecture.
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Linux Fundamentals
42 min read
Real-time systems, bare-metal programming, RTOS, and firmware architecture.
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Protocols
32 min read
Real-time systems, bare-metal programming, RTOS, and firmware architecture.
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Real-time systems, bare-metal programming, RTOS, and firmware architecture.
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