Computer and Control Engineering

- Introduction to a computer system: Von Neumann architecture; logical gates (AND, OR, NOT, NOR, NAND, XOR); implementation of logic gates using resistors and transistors; VLSI technology; Combinational Logic Circuits, Adder, Sequential circuits, flip-flops, introduction to operating systems - Compilation toolchain based on gcc (-E, -c, -S, -o); assembly vs. machine language, objdump -d, asm directives, x86 instruction mov, asm literals, asm suffix in ATT syntax, x86 registers - Logical and Arithmetic instructions in x86, %esp register, stack frame, parameters of a function, memory operands, endianness. - If and while in x86 - Pointers, arrays, and strings in x86 - Instructions: call, ret; ABI, caller-save/callee-save, push, pop, type cast - Local variables in the stack, including arrays; Instructions: lea and setcc - Manuals: Intel x86, ABI 386; memory alignment and padding rules - Instrictions: shift and cmov; x86_64 platform; GDB

Knowledge of the Von Neumann architecture, boolean algebra, two's complement representation, floating-point number representation, C language (array, pointers, operators */&).

Notes from the course (available on course website)

Attendance to the course is optional.

The student has to take a written exam (2 hours) with open questions and exercises on the topics covered during the course. The written exam is taken in a room of the university.

Lectures will be given in blended mode: a subset of students can follow the lectures in class, while the remaining students can follow the lectures in streaming on Zoom.

- Introduction to a computer system: Von Neumann architecture; logical gates (AND, OR, NOT, NOR, NAND, XOR); implementation of logic gates using resistors and transistors; VLSI technology; Combinational Logic Circuits, Adder, Sequential circuits, flip-flops, introduction to operating systems - Compilation toolchain based on gcc (-E, -c, -S, -o); assembly vs. machine language, objdump -d, asm directives, x86 instruction mov, asm literals, asm suffix in ATT syntax, x86 registers - Logical and Arithmetic instructions in x86, %esp register, stack frame, parameters of a function, memory operands, endianness. - If and while in x86 - Pointers, arrays, and strings in x86 - Instructions: call, ret; ABI, caller-save/callee-save, push, pop, type cast - Local variables in the stack, including arrays; Instructions: lea and setcc - Manuals: Intel x86, ABI 386; memory alignment and padding rules - Instrictions: shift and cmov; x86_64 platform; GDB

Knowledge of the Von Neumann architecture, boolean algebra, two's complement representation, floating-point number representation, C language (array, pointers, operators */&).

Notes from the course (available on course website)

Attendance to the course is optional.

The student has to take a written exam (2 hours) with open questions and exercises on the topics covered during the course. The written exam is taken in a room of the university.

Lectures will be given in blended mode: a subset of students can follow the lectures in class, while the remaining students can follow the lectures in streaming on Zoom.

- Introduction to a computer system: Von Neumann architecture; logical gates (AND, OR, NOT, NOR, NAND, XOR); implementation of logic gates using resistors and transistors; VLSI technology; Combinational Logic Circuits, Adder, Sequential circuits, flip-flops, introduction to operating systems - Compilation toolchain based on gcc (-E, -c, -S, -o); assembly vs. machine language, objdump -d, asm directives, x86 instruction mov, asm literals, asm suffix in ATT syntax, x86 registers - Logical and Arithmetic instructions in x86, %esp register, stack frame, parameters of a function, memory operands, endianness. - If and while in x86 - Pointers, arrays, and strings in x86 - Instructions: call, ret; ABI, caller-save/callee-save, push, pop, type cast - Local variables in the stack, including arrays; Instructions: lea and setcc - Manuals: Intel x86, ABI 386; memory alignment and padding rules - Instrictions: shift and cmov; x86_64 platform; GDB

Knowledge of the Von Neumann architecture, boolean algebra, two's complement representation, floating-point number representation, C language (array, pointers, operators */&).

Notes from the course (available on course website)

Attendance to the course is optional.

The student has to take a written exam (2 hours) with open questions and exercises on the topics covered during the course. The written exam is taken in a room of the university.

Lectures will be given in blended mode: a subset of students can follow the lectures in class, while the remaining students can follow the lectures in streaming on Zoom.

- Introduction to a computer system: Von Neumann architecture; logical gates (AND, OR, NOT, NOR, NAND, XOR); implementation of logic gates using resistors and transistors; VLSI technology; Combinational Logic Circuits, Adder, Sequential circuits, flip-flops, introduction to operating systems - Compilation toolchain based on gcc (-E, -c, -S, -o); assembly vs. machine language, objdump -d, asm directives, x86 instruction mov, asm literals, asm suffix in ATT syntax, x86 registers - Logical and Arithmetic instructions in x86, %esp register, stack frame, parameters of a function, memory operands, endianness. - If and while in x86 - Pointers, arrays, and strings in x86 - Instructions: call, ret; ABI, caller-save/callee-save, push, pop, type cast - Local variables in the stack, including arrays; Instructions: lea and setcc - Manuals: Intel x86, ABI 386; memory alignment and padding rules - Instrictions: shift and cmov; x86_64 platform; GDB

Knowledge of the Von Neumann architecture, boolean algebra, two's complement representation, floating-point number representation, C language (array, pointers, operators */&).

Notes from the course (available on course website)

Attendance to the course is optional.

The student has to take a written exam (2 hours) with open questions and exercises on the topics covered during the course. The written exam is taken in a room of the university.

Lectures will be given in blended mode: a subset of students can follow the lectures in class, while the remaining students can follow the lectures in streaming on Zoom.