In this famous course (often regarded as one of the best courses ever designed for Computer Science), we build a computer from scratch, and then, using a higher-level programming language that we design ourselves, develop a program that runs on that very computer.
This means that we go through all the building blocks a modern computer needs to be able to run software. In Part I we design the hardware, and in Part II we focus on the software.
Part I consists of six projects:
- Boolean functions and gate logic: design our own basic chips, using the course's HDL (Hardware Descriptive Language), e.g. And, Not, Or, Xor, Mux, Dmux, etc.
- Boolean Arithmetic and the ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit)
- Build the main mermoy unit, RAM (random access memory)
- Write assembly programs in the Hack assembly language
- Build the CPU (central processing unit), and the entire computer architecture
- Implement the assembler for the Hack assembly language
Welcome to read more in my highlights and notes on the course.
