Let’s all take a moment to remember Nikolas Wirth and Project Oberon and its fpga processor. I learned so much from reading his books. They are very accessible and I recommend them to anyone!
This course is actually mandatory in the first year of the CS undergraduate program here at ETH. I remember it very fondly for its great (and passionate) lecture and the hands on experience building a MIPS cpu in the exercise sessions. Probably the best lecture in my undergraduate.
This is also the university that develops RumbleDB[0]. It uses JSONiq as its query language which is such a pleasure to work with. It's useful for dealing with data lakes, though I've only experimented with it because of JSONiq.
Onur Mutlu also posts his (great) lectures to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@OnurMutluLectures
Broadening the perspective here. Has anyone curated a complete computer science / computer engineering curriculum here with classes that are essentially “best of breed” on YouTube?
Crazy how successful the ETH open source designs were. The pop up in lots of places.
Does anyone know how this course compares to the NAND2Tetris course?
Details on the ETH Zurich open source ASICs can be found here:
https://github.com/open-source-eda-birds-of-a-feather/open-s...
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