Computer Architecture & Low-Level Learning Path

Step 1 — 24-Part Series

Computer Architecture

Digital logic, ALUs, pipelines, caches, virtual memory, multiprocessors, and GPU architecture.

Part 1

Comp Arch Assembly

30 min read

Digital logic, ALUs, pipelines, caches, virtual memory, multiprocessors, and GPU architecture.

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Part 2

Comp Arch Cache Memory Hierarchy

46 min read

Digital logic, ALUs, pipelines, caches, virtual memory, multiprocessors, and GPU architecture.

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Part 3

Comp Arch Capstone Projects

35 min read

Digital logic, ALUs, pipelines, caches, virtual memory, multiprocessors, and GPU architecture.

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Part 4

Comp Arch Case Studies

41 min read

Digital logic, ALUs, pipelines, caches, virtual memory, multiprocessors, and GPU architecture.

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Part 5

Comp Arch Compilers

48 min read

Digital logic, ALUs, pipelines, caches, virtual memory, multiprocessors, and GPU architecture.

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Part 6

Comp Arch Cpu Pipelining

48 min read

Digital logic, ALUs, pipelines, caches, virtual memory, multiprocessors, and GPU architecture.

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Part 7

Comp Arch Cpu Scheduling

44 min read

Digital logic, ALUs, pipelines, caches, virtual memory, multiprocessors, and GPU architecture.

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Part 8

Comp Arch Deadlocks

47 min read

Digital logic, ALUs, pipelines, caches, virtual memory, multiprocessors, and GPU architecture.

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Part 9

Comp Arch Digital Logic

43 min read

Digital logic, ALUs, pipelines, caches, virtual memory, multiprocessors, and GPU architecture.

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Part 10

Comp Arch File Systems

36 min read

Digital logic, ALUs, pipelines, caches, virtual memory, multiprocessors, and GPU architecture.

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Part 11

Comp Arch Foundations

41 min read

Digital logic, ALUs, pipelines, caches, virtual memory, multiprocessors, and GPU architecture.

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Part 12

Comp Arch Io Devices

46 min read

Digital logic, ALUs, pipelines, caches, virtual memory, multiprocessors, and GPU architecture.

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Step 2 — 25-Part Series

Assembly Mastery

x86-64 and ARM assembly — instructions, addressing modes, system calls, and optimization.

Part 1

Asm Part00 Environment Setup

42 min read

x86-64 and ARM assembly — instructions, addressing modes, system calls, and optimization.

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Part 2

Asm Part01 Fundamentals

31 min read

x86-64 and ARM assembly — instructions, addressing modes, system calls, and optimization.

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Part 3

Asm Part02 Cpu Architecture

39 min read

x86-64 and ARM assembly — instructions, addressing modes, system calls, and optimization.

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Part 4

Asm Part03 Registers

47 min read

x86-64 and ARM assembly — instructions, addressing modes, system calls, and optimization.

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Part 5

Asm Part04 Instruction Encoding

46 min read

x86-64 and ARM assembly — instructions, addressing modes, system calls, and optimization.

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Part 6

Asm Part05 Nasm

44 min read

x86-64 and ARM assembly — instructions, addressing modes, system calls, and optimization.

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Part 7

Asm Part06 Masm

38 min read

x86-64 and ARM assembly — instructions, addressing modes, system calls, and optimization.

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Part 8

Asm Part07 Memory Addressing

46 min read

x86-64 and ARM assembly — instructions, addressing modes, system calls, and optimization.

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Part 9

Asm Part08 Stack Calling

33 min read

x86-64 and ARM assembly — instructions, addressing modes, system calls, and optimization.

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Part 10

Asm Part09 Control Flow

42 min read

x86-64 and ARM assembly — instructions, addressing modes, system calls, and optimization.

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Asm Part10 Arithmetic

39 min read

x86-64 and ARM assembly — instructions, addressing modes, system calls, and optimization.

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Part 12

Asm Part11 Floating Point

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Step 3 — 28-Part Series

ARM Assembly

ARM-specific assembly — Thumb, NEON SIMD, exception handling, and bare-metal coding.

Part 1

01 Architecture History

43 min read

ARM-specific assembly — Thumb, NEON SIMD, exception handling, and bare-metal coding.

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Part 2

02 Arm32 Instructions

38 min read

ARM-specific assembly — Thumb, NEON SIMD, exception handling, and bare-metal coding.

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Part 3

03 Aarch64 Registers

48 min read

ARM-specific assembly — Thumb, NEON SIMD, exception handling, and bare-metal coding.

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Part 4

04 Arithmetic Logic

45 min read

ARM-specific assembly — Thumb, NEON SIMD, exception handling, and bare-metal coding.

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Part 5

05 Branching Loops

43 min read

ARM-specific assembly — Thumb, NEON SIMD, exception handling, and bare-metal coding.

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Part 6

06 Stack Subroutines

32 min read

ARM-specific assembly — Thumb, NEON SIMD, exception handling, and bare-metal coding.

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Part 7

07 Memory Caches

46 min read

ARM-specific assembly — Thumb, NEON SIMD, exception handling, and bare-metal coding.

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Part 8

08 Neon Simd

40 min read

ARM-specific assembly — Thumb, NEON SIMD, exception handling, and bare-metal coding.

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Part 9

09 Sve Sve2

45 min read

ARM-specific assembly — Thumb, NEON SIMD, exception handling, and bare-metal coding.

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Part 10

10 Floating Point

32 min read

ARM-specific assembly — Thumb, NEON SIMD, exception handling, and bare-metal coding.

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Part 11

11 Exception Levels

32 min read

ARM-specific assembly — Thumb, NEON SIMD, exception handling, and bare-metal coding.

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Part 12

12 Mmu Virtual Memory

43 min read

ARM-specific assembly — Thumb, NEON SIMD, exception handling, and bare-metal coding.

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Step 4 — 18-Part Series

Kernel Development

Process scheduling, virtual memory, file systems, device drivers, and kernel modules.

Part 1

Kernel Dev Phase 00 Orientation

30 min read

Process scheduling, virtual memory, file systems, device drivers, and kernel modules.

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Part 2

Kernel Dev Phase 01 Boot Process

32 min read

Process scheduling, virtual memory, file systems, device drivers, and kernel modules.

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Part 3

Kernel Dev Phase 02 Real Mode

41 min read

Process scheduling, virtual memory, file systems, device drivers, and kernel modules.

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Part 4

Kernel Dev Phase 03 Protected Mode

38 min read

Process scheduling, virtual memory, file systems, device drivers, and kernel modules.

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Part 5

Kernel Dev Phase 04 Display Input

46 min read

Process scheduling, virtual memory, file systems, device drivers, and kernel modules.

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Part 6

Kernel Dev Phase 05 Interrupts

37 min read

Process scheduling, virtual memory, file systems, device drivers, and kernel modules.

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Part 7

Kernel Dev Phase 06 Memory

46 min read

Process scheduling, virtual memory, file systems, device drivers, and kernel modules.

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Part 8

Kernel Dev Phase 07 Filesystem

36 min read

Process scheduling, virtual memory, file systems, device drivers, and kernel modules.

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Part 9

Kernel Dev Phase 08 Processes

42 min read

Process scheduling, virtual memory, file systems, device drivers, and kernel modules.

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Part 10

Kernel Dev Phase 09 Elf

43 min read

Process scheduling, virtual memory, file systems, device drivers, and kernel modules.

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Part 11

Kernel Dev Phase 10 Stdlib Shell

40 min read

Process scheduling, virtual memory, file systems, device drivers, and kernel modules.

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Part 12

Kernel Dev Phase 11 Long Mode

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Process scheduling, virtual memory, file systems, device drivers, and kernel modules.

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Step 5 — 16-Part Series

GNU Make & Build Systems

Build automation, dependency resolution, cross-compilation, and toolchains.

Part 1

01 Build Systems Foundations

35 min read

Build automation, dependency resolution, cross-compilation, and toolchains.

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Part 2

02 Targets Prerequisites Execution

42 min read

Build automation, dependency resolution, cross-compilation, and toolchains.

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Part 3

03 Variables Expansion Scope

33 min read

Build automation, dependency resolution, cross-compilation, and toolchains.

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04 Automatic Variables Pattern R...

42 min read

Build automation, dependency resolution, cross-compilation, and toolchains.

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Part 5

05 Built In Functions Make Language

30 min read

Build automation, dependency resolution, cross-compilation, and toolchains.

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Part 6

06 Conditionals Configurable Builds

32 min read

Build automation, dependency resolution, cross-compilation, and toolchains.

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Part 7

07 Automatic Dependency Generation

37 min read

Build automation, dependency resolution, cross-compilation, and toolchains.

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Part 8

08 Compilation Workflow Libraries

39 min read

Build automation, dependency resolution, cross-compilation, and toolchains.

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Part 9

09 Project Architecture Multi Di...

40 min read

Build automation, dependency resolution, cross-compilation, and toolchains.

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Part 10

10 Cross Compilation Toolchains

42 min read

Build automation, dependency resolution, cross-compilation, and toolchains.

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Part 11

11 Parallel Builds Performance

33 min read

Build automation, dependency resolution, cross-compilation, and toolchains.

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Part 12

12 Testing Coverage Debug Tooling

39 min read

Build automation, dependency resolution, cross-compilation, and toolchains.

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Step 6 — 13-Part Series

Embedded Systems

Real-time systems, bare-metal programming, RTOS, and firmware architecture.

Part 1

Android Architecture

36 min read

Real-time systems, bare-metal programming, RTOS, and firmware architecture.

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Part 2

Android Bsp

30 min read

Real-time systems, bare-metal programming, RTOS, and firmware architecture.

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Part 3

Android Hal

43 min read

Real-time systems, bare-metal programming, RTOS, and firmware architecture.

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Part 4

Autosar

41 min read

Real-time systems, bare-metal programming, RTOS, and firmware architecture.

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Part 5

Debugging

30 min read

Real-time systems, bare-metal programming, RTOS, and firmware architecture.

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Part 6

Device Drivers

35 min read

Real-time systems, bare-metal programming, RTOS, and firmware architecture.

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Part 7

Fundamentals

43 min read

Real-time systems, bare-metal programming, RTOS, and firmware architecture.

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Part 8

Kernel

37 min read

Real-time systems, bare-metal programming, RTOS, and firmware architecture.

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Part 9

Linux Fundamentals

45 min read

Real-time systems, bare-metal programming, RTOS, and firmware architecture.

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Part 10

Protocols

40 min read

Real-time systems, bare-metal programming, RTOS, and firmware architecture.

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Part 11

Rtos

43 min read

Real-time systems, bare-metal programming, RTOS, and firmware architecture.

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Part 12

Stm32 Arm

42 min read

Real-time systems, bare-metal programming, RTOS, and firmware architecture.

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