Schedule 2025-2026

• Part 1 - From logic gates to processors
  • TH1 Lecture L1: Combinational Logic
  • TH2 TP 1: Combinational Logic
  • Homework: Building an Arithmetic-Logic Unit
  • TH3 Lecture L2: Synchronous Sequential Logic
  • TH4 TP 2: Sequential Logic
  • TH5 & TH6 Lecture L3-L4: Building a RISC-V processor
  • TH7 & TH8 TP 3-4: Building a RISC-V processor
  • Homework: Programming in Assembler
• Part 2 - From processors to system language: the C programming language
  • TH9 Lecture L5: C language (part 1)
  • TH10 TP 5: Getting Started with C
  • TH11 Lecture L6: C language (part 2)
  • TH12 TP 6: Derived Types and Pointers (first part)
  • TH13 Lecture L7: C language (part 3)
  • TH14 - TH17 TP 7-10: Derived Types and Pointers
  • No formal homework during this part, you just have to finish the TP
• Part 3 - From a system language to an operating system
  • TH18 Lecture L8: Operating Systems - Introduction and Processes
  • TH19 Lecture L9: Threads and Scheduling
  • TH20 TP 11: Multiprocessing and Multithreading
  • Homework: Signals
  • TH21 Lecture L10: Synchronization
  • TH22 TD 1: Synchronization
  • TH23 Lecture L11: File System
  • TH24 TP 12: File System
  • Homework: Semaphores
  • TH25 Lecture L12: Memory Management
  • TH26 TP 13: Pipes & FIFO
  • TH27 TD 2: Q&A, review of last year exam…

Lectures

Introduction

• Lecture 0: Introduction

Part 1 - From logic gates to processors

• Lecture L1: Combinational Logic
• Lecture L2: Synchronous Sequential Logic
• Lecture L3-4: Building a RISC-V processor

Part 2 - From processors to system language: the C programming language

• Lecture L5: C language (part 1)
• Lecture L6: C language (part 2)
• Lecture L7: C language (part 3)

Part 3 - From a system language to an operating system

• Lecture L8: Operating Systems - Introduction and Processes
• Lecture L9: Threads and Scheduling
• Lecture L10: Synchronization
• Lecture L11: File System
• Lecture L12: Memory Management

TPs, TDs & Homework assignments

All TPs, TDs and homework assignments are available here.

Resources

Common tools

• Introduction to computing tools at Télécom Paris (shell, SSH, VPN, git, gitlab…)

Part 1 - From logic gates to processors

• Handout
• RISC-V RV32I Base Instruction Set
• RISC-V ISA documentation
• Online tool for RISC-V instruction encoding/decoding

Part 2 - From processors to system language: the C programming language

• Book: Effective C - An Introduction to Professional C Programming, Robert C. Seacord, No Starch Press, 2020, ISBN 978-1-71850-104-1
• CPP Reference

Part 3 - From a system language to an operating system

• Textbook: Operating System Concepts (10th edition), Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, Greg Gagne, Wiley, 2018, ISBN 978-1119439257. This book is available online.

Old exams

• Exam 2024-2025
• Exam 2023-2024