devutilsEnglishGitHub Carte éditoriale en anglais. Les titres cliquables ouvrent les articles publiés ; les autres thèmes sont prévus.
- 01
Foundations
Mathematical reasoning, units, signals, information, modeling
Information et représentation binaire : comprendre les bits
Modèles et abstraction : hypothèses, tests et limites
Raisonnement mathématique : variables, exemples et preuves
- 02
Physics
Electricity, electromagnetism, quantum basics, thermodynamics, solid-state physics
Electricity — charge, voltage and current English
Electromagnetism — fields and induction English
Thermodynamics — heat and energy English
- 03
Chemistry & materials
Atomic bonding, crystal lattices, silicon, doping, material properties
Atoms and bonding — from charge to shared electrons English
Crystal structures — cells, sharing and defects English
Material properties — resistivity, geometry and constraints English
Semiconductor doping — donors, acceptors and neutrality English
Silicon and silicon dioxide — structure and composition English
- 04
Semiconductor manufacturing
Wafers, photolithography, deposition, etching, implantation, metallization, packaging, testing
Deposition and etching — growth, transfer and selectivity English
Implantation and annealing — dose, depth and active dopants English
Interconnects and planarization — lines, vias and resistance English
Photolithography — resist polarity, patterns and alignment English
Testing, yield and packaging — count accepted products English
Wafers and process flow — from substrate to patterned stack English
- 05
Semiconductor devices
PN junctions, diodes, MOSFETs, CMOS, scaling, leakage
CMOS — complementary switches and charging energy English
Device scaling — density, energy and performance tradeoffs English
Diode models — bias, exponential current and circuit assumptions English
Leakage and static power — energy while idle English
MOSFETs — gate control, terminal voltages and operating regions English
- 06
Electronics & PCB
Circuit theory, analog and digital electronics, schematics, layout, power, signal integrity, measurement
Analog and digital interfaces — margins and settling English
Circuit analysis — nodes, loops and loaded dividers English
Measurement and debugging — loading, references and evidence English
PCB layout — geometry, resistance and return paths English
Power and decoupling — regulation, loss and transient charge English
Schematics and connectivity — nets, pins and footprints English
Signal integrity — travel time, reflections and receiver behavior English
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Integrated circuit design
RTL, HDL, simulation, verification, synthesis, physical design, timing, ASIC vs FPGA
ASIC and FPGA — target resources and implementation choices English
Physical design — placement, clocks, routing and extraction English
RTL and hardware description English
Simulation and verification — contracts, checks and coverage English
- 08
Digital logic
Boolean algebra, combinational and sequential logic, FSMs, arithmetic, registers, memory
Synchronous interfaces — valid, ready and backpressure English
- 09
Computer architecture
ISA, microarchitecture, pipelines, caches, CPU/GPU, buses, RISC-V, x86-64
Buses and I/O — transactions, addresses and shared service English
Caches and memory hierarchy — locality, tags and misses English
CPU and GPU parallelism — useful work, bandwidth and overhead English
Instruction execution — fetch, operands and architectural updates English
ISA and microarchitecture — contract, implementation and performance English
Pipelines and hazards — overlap, dependencies and penalties English
- 10
Firmware & embedded
Bare metal, boot, MCUs, interrupts, DMA, drivers, RTOS, embedded Linux
DMA and buffer ownership — addresses, visibility and reuse English
Embedded Linux — boot chain, drivers, root filesystems and updates English
Interrupts and drivers — response, context and shared state English
Microcontrollers and MMIO — peripherals, bits and polling English
Real-time scheduling — ready tasks, deadlines and interference English
Reset and boot — runtime state, images and entry conditions English
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Operating systems
Kernel, processes, scheduling, memory, filesystems, syscalls, device drivers, virtualization
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Programming & toolchains
Assembly, C/C++/Rust, compilers, linkers, ELF, ABI, algorithms, debugging
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Applications & systems
UI, APIs, networking, databases, concurrency, distributed systems, operations
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