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Goal(s)

1. Understanding the Foundations of a Computer System
   Discover how digital electronics serve as the hardware basis for logical systems and connect abstract computing to the physical world.

1. Designing a Digital Circuit for a Specific Algorithm
   Build complex operators from elementary functions, design automata to sequence and synchronize circuit operations, and transform an abstract algorithm into a concrete hardware architecture.

1. Understanding How Processors Work
   Explore the concept of a processor's instruction set, understand how this concept enables the execution of any algorithm on the same digital circuit, analyze and design the microarchitecture of processors that can interpret an instruction set efficiently, discover the concept of cache, and grasp the RISC-V architecture.

1. Practicing Circuit Design
   Use a hardware description language to design and simulate digital circuits, test circuits on an FPGA board, and develop your own RISC-V processor as a project.

Content(s)

Volume: 8 tutorials (TD) of 2 hours, 6 lab sessions (TP) of 2 hours, 10 project sessions of 2 hours

• Fundamentals of Digital Circuits: Combinational logic (TD1), sequential logic (TD2 and TP1), algorithmic constructions (TD3, TP2), arithmetic operators (TD4, TP3), state machines (TD5, TP4)
• Design of Application-Specific Circuits: PCPO (TD6, TP5)
• Introduction to Processor Functioning: Study of a basic processor to explore architecture concepts, instruction encoding, and programming (TD7 and TD8), Demonstration of cache usefulness (TP6)
• RISC-V Processor Design Project: Development of a multi-cycle architecture (data path, control unit, peripherals), validation through simulation and FPGA implementation

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