fromthetransistor

d in 12 weeks of part time effort and then you can take that as a jumping off point into fuller treatments of the topics that catch your interest or where you find yourself with an obvious gap in knowledge. Also this concerns me: Section 4: Compiler: A “high” level language -- 3 weeks - Building a C compiler(Haskell, 2000) -- A bit more interesting, cover the basics of compiler design. Write in haskell. Write a parser. Break this into subchapters. Outputs ARM assembly. - Building a linker(Python, 300) -- If you are clever, this should take a day. Output elf files. Use for testing with QEMU, semihosting. - libc + malloc(C, 500) -- The gateway to more complicated programs. libc is only half here, things like memcpy and memset and printf, but no syscall wrappers. - Building an ethernet controller(Verilog, 200) -- Talk to a real PHY, consider carefully MMIO design. - Writing a bootloader(C, 300) -- Write ethernet program to boot kernel over UDP. First thing written in C. Maybe don’t redownload over serial each time and embed in FPGA image. That does not seem like a 3 week project to me if you've never written a compiler or linker before. Especially given he provides (from here) no other material or guidance and you end up using 3 separate languages. "basics of compiler design" in less than 3 weeks along with "if you're clever, this should take a day"? And an ethernet controller, and a libc and malloc, and a bootloader? If you know Haskell enough to make a compiler, Python enough to make a linker, C well enough to make libc + malloc + a bootloader, Verilog well enough to make an ethernet controller all in three weeks, then you don't need this "course" at all. Just the C compiler in Haskell part is a semester long academic course, and rarely actually results in a full compiler with a teacher setting the pace (with assignments, quizzes, and tests).

ese resources are mostly software-oriented, so they wouldn't give you much insight into modern chip fabrication, but if you're coming from a software background, may prove to be useful for building on what you already know.