[HN Gopher] ETH-Zurich: Digital Design and Computer Architecture...
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ETH-Zurich: Digital Design and Computer Architecture; 227-0003-10L,
Spring, 2025
Author : __rito__
Score : 106 points
Date : 2025-11-30 17:45 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (safari.ethz.ch)
(TXT) w3m dump (safari.ethz.ch)
| nfreising wrote:
| Onur Mutlu also posts his (great) lectures to YouTube:
| https://www.youtube.com/@OnurMutluLectures
| __rito__ wrote:
| The link for this course's playlist is posted on the page.
| panick21_ wrote:
| Crazy how successful the ETH open source designs were. The pop up
| in lots of places.
| ur-whale wrote:
| https://www.topuniversities.com/world-university-rankings
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| ETH is at 7
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| Not too shabby for such a tiny country.
| slow_typist wrote:
| Not too shabby, while ,,citations per faculty" is the
| indicator that destroys science and isn't a very strong
| predictor for teaching quality.
| chompychop wrote:
| Does anyone know how this course compares to the NAND2Tetris
| course?
| markus_zhang wrote:
| You can check out Onur Mutlu's videos on YouTube. I'd say it is
| much more demanding than NAND2Tetris.
| jansommer wrote:
| 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.
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| [0] https://github.com/RumbleDB/rumble
| throwaway31131 wrote:
| Details on the ETH Zurich open source ASICs can be found here:
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| https://github.com/open-source-eda-birds-of-a-feather/open-s...
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| Presented at DAC 2025
| amelius wrote:
| Is it even possible to design serious ASICs without expensive
| tooling?
| somethingsome wrote:
| From the slides, they are reducing the gap, it's not there
| yet.
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| But I was actually pleasantly surprised by how close they
| are.
| throwaway31131 wrote:
| For some definitions of serious, sure. The main critical
| piece that's missing is all the testing infrastructure.
| Buying 100 or so ASICs for university use is one thing.
| Buying 100K, or more, is another.
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| Not the gdb support via jtag that software engineers need,
| they have that. But the various manufacturing test suites,
| which do modify gate netlists, and automated circuit
| characterization techniques that electrical engineers and the
| manufacturing engineers use.
| hannesfur wrote:
| 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.
| outside1234 wrote:
| 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?
| le-mark wrote:
| 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!
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