In-depth study of computer organization and processor design. Topics include 8086 assembly programming, evaluation of CPU VHDL softcores, instruction pipelining, cache memory hierarchies, and hardware implementation on FPGAs.

• Software: emu8086, ModelSim, Xilinx ISE / Vivado
• Distinction: Awarded National OpenCourses distinction

Principles of modern operating systems. Focuses on Unix shell scripting, low-level POSIX C system calls, process creation/forking, multithreading, interprocess communication (IPC: pipes, shared memory, semaphores), and file systems.

• Environment: FreeBSD 14 / Linux Ubuntu, GCC toolchain
• Focus: POSIX concurrency and memory safety

High-performance computing on modern parallel architectures. Covers massively parallel programming with NVIDIA CUDA on GPUs, shared-memory programming via OpenMP, distributed clusters with OpenMPI, and performance profiling.

• Clusters: FUJITSU PRIMERGY Xeon Cluster, NVIDIA Tesla/GTX
• Profiling: Intel VTune, Intel ManyCore Lab

Co-design of hardware and software for embedded microprocessors and System-on-Chip (SoC) architectures. Real-time programming on ARM Cortex processors, custom VHDL IP cores for PicoBlaze/MicroBlaze, and sensor integration.

• Hardware: Altera DE2-115, BeagleBoard, Raspberry Pi
• Skills: Device drivers, hardware interrupt handlers, VHDL

Introductory digital electronics and switching circuit theory, Karnaugh maps, combinational and sequential circuit analysis, Logisim schematic simulation, and introduction to hardware description in VHDL.

Modern full-stack web development. Covers standards-compliant HTML5/CSS, client-side JavaScript, server-side PHP with PDO and MySQL database integration, sessions, and web application security best practices.