In a single semester, students doing this course will build, starting from a primitive NAND gate, a set of more complex logic circuits (multi-way multi-bit mux/demux, registers, counters, a simple ALU, RAM) culminating in a simple 16 bit processor. A hardware simulator and a simple Hardware Description Language is used to build the processor. The course doesn’t end here – the students will next build an assembler which translates the assembly code of the processor into machine code, a Virtual Machine, a compiler for an object based language, and a simple Operating System!

Amazing… someday I’d like to go through this course.

TECS – The most amazing CS course I have seen!.

No Comments / Jan 13.11 / Education, Programming, Tech / by echen

Dive into 2010 [dive into mark]

Dive into 2010 [dive into mark].

No Comments / Jan 10.11 / Business, Education, Programming, Tech / by echen

A Walled Wide Web for Nervous Autocrats

“Vladimir Putin signed a 20-page executive order requiring all public institutions in Russia to replace proprietary software, developed by companies like Microsoft and Adobe, with free open-source alternatives by 2015.”

Putin is the man.

A Walled Wide Web for Nervous Autocrats – WSJ.com.

No Comments / Jan 08.11 / Open Source, Tech / by echen

A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins

Coding Horror: A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins.

No Comments / Jan 06.11 / Programming, Tech / by echen

PS3 Media Server

DLNA server that worked perfectly for me on the Mac.

PS3 Media Server is a DLNA compliant Upnp Media Server for the PS3, written in Java, with the purpose of streaming or transcoding any kind of media files, with minimum configuration. It’s backed up with the powerful Mplayer/FFmpeg packages.

ps3mediaserver – Project Hosting on Google Code.

No Comments / Dec 20.10 / Apple, Open Source, Tech / by echen