NET-101
Networks and Packet Analysis anchors and references
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NET-101 Anchor Reading Guide
VCA-NET-101 cross-chapter reading-guide handout. Companion to the catalog page at https://virtuscyberacademy.org/vca-net-101. Audience: Belt-3 networking-track students arriving from the catalog's dis...
NET-301
Advanced Networking anchors and references
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NET-301 Anchor Reading Guide
VCA-NET-301 cross-chapter reading-guide handout. Companion to the catalog page at https://virtuscyberacademy.org/vca-net-301. Audience: Belt-5 networking-track students arriving from the catalog's dis...
RF-301
Advanced SDR + Waveform RE anchors and references
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RF-301 Anchor Reading Guide
VCA-RF-301 cross-chapter reading-guide handout. Companion to the catalog page at https://virtuscyberacademy.org/vca-rf-301. Audience: Belt-5 RF-track students arriving from the catalog's distilled "Wh...
WIR-101
Wireless Penetration Testing anchors and references
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WIR-101 Anchor Reading Guide
VCA-WIR-101 cross-chapter reading-guide handout. Companion to the catalog page at https://virtuscyberacademy.org/vca-wir-101. Audience: Belt-3 RF/wireless-track students arriving from the catalog's di...
SEC-101
Cybersecurity Principles labs and references
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Lab Seed: SEC-101 5G-AKA Identity-Privacy Analysis (Optional Advanced Extension)
Optional advanced-extension lab seed for vca-sec-101 Cybersecurity Principles. Pulls forward FROM the canonical 5G-AKA prose at vca-net-301 Ch 8 §8.8.2. Does not re-derive primary content. Companion t...
PEN-101
Introduction to Penetration Testing references
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PEN-101 Anchor Reading Guide
VCA-PEN-101 cross-chapter reading-guide handout. Companion to the catalog page at https://virtuscyberacademy.org/vca-pen-101. Audience: Belt-3 pentest-track students arriving from the catalog's distil...
ADV-101
Adversarial Techniques capstone material
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ADV-101 Capstone Arc: CVE-2026-5402 TLS ECH Integer-Truncation
Course: VCA-ADV-101 (Adversarial Techniques: CVE-to-Tool); Belt-5 capstone application layer Scope: Capstone-arc application; engagement-tradecraft depth Pairs with parent quartet handout: cve-lab-wir...
RE-101
Reverse Engineering of Embedded Systems lab clusters
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RE-101 Binary-Diff Lab Cluster: Wireshark CVE Quartet (2026-05)
Course companion for: VCA-RE-101 (primary curriculum owner per D1) + VCA-ADV-101 (capstone application layer) + VCA-SEC-101 (defensive context cross-reference) Scope: Lab-cluster module scaffold; Week...
HW-101
Electronics and Microcontrollers anchors and references
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HW-101 Anchor Reading Guide
VCA-HW-101 cross-chapter reading-guide handout. Companion to the catalog page at https://virtuscyberacademy.org/vca-hw-101. Audience: Belt-3 hardware-track students arriving from the catalog's distill...
CVE references
CVE rollups, vocabulary references, detection-rule references
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CVE Class: Zip-Slip Pattern (Archive-Extraction Path Traversal)
Course companion for: SEC-101 Module 4 (Vulnerability Landscape) + PEN-101 Week 6 (CVE-driven exploitation set) + ADV-101 Belt-5 capstone preparation + RE-011 Module 3 (Foundational disclosure-vocabul...
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CVE Lab, Wireshark / tshark RCE Quartet (2026-05)
Cross-chapter shared lab handout for vca-sec-101 (Foundations / Defense) + vca-pen-101 (Penetration Testing) + vca-adv-101 (Adversarial Capstone) + vca-re-101 (Reverse Engineering, primary) + vca-re-0...
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CVE Snort 3 Rules Reference: Wireshark RCE Quartet (2026-05)
Course companion for: vca-mini-wireshark-cves-2026-05 (catalog page) + ADV-101 / SEC-101 / NET-101 Scope: Defensive: rule templates, rationale, false-positive considerations, tuning notes Rule engine:...
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CVE Suricata Rules Reference: Wireshark RCE Quartet (2026-05)
Course companion for: vca-mini-wireshark-cves-2026-05 (catalog page) + ADV-101 / SEC-101 / NET-101 Scope: Defensive: rule templates, rationale, false-positive considerations, tuning notes Parent hando...
Cross-chapter references
Multi-track references that several courses cite simultaneously
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AXI4-Lite Manifold: Canonical Base-Address Map
VCA-CSA-101 cross-chapter quick-reference handout. Anchors: §25 (canonical address map + 3-pattern overview); §5.7.1 (Virtus Console memory map); §12.6 (Driver-Layer OS Services). Companion to cross-c...
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Control-Plane Architectures Cross-Chapter Comparison Sidebar
Cross-chapter shared reference for vca-rf-301 Ch 5 (Cellular protocols, LTE + 5G NR) + vca-net-301 Ch 8 (Wireless / 802.11 deep-dive, where the 5G companion framing lives) + cross-link back to vca-net...
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Cross-Chapter CVE-Class Vocabulary Reference
Cross-chapter shared reference for vca-sec-101 (Foundations / Defense) + vca-pen-101 (Penetration Testing) + vca-adv-101 (Adversarial Capstone) + vca-adv-102 (AI & Agentic Security) + vca-re-101 (Reve...
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DOCSIS Quad-Cross-Cut Shared Reference
Cross-chapter shared reference for vca-net-201 link-layer module + vca-net-301 carrier / RF-front-end module + vca-rf-301 Ch 5 cellular-and-cable-RF module + vca-re-201 SB6141 burst-radio-signal RE (f...
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IP-Pack Interaction Patterns: Doorbell, Scratchpad, Descriptor
VCA-CSA-101 cross-chapter quick-reference handout. Anchors: §25.4 (canonical address map + 3-pattern overview); §5.7 (Memory-Mapped I/O); §12.6 (Driver-Layer OS Services).
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Cross-Chapter Engagement & MITRE ATT&CK Vocabulary Reference
Cross-chapter shared reference primarily for vca-pen-101 (Penetration Testing). Secondary cross-references from vca-adv-101 (Adversarial Capstone), vca-adv-102 (AI & Agentic Security), and vca-sec-101...
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FPGA Cell to Silicon Bridge
VCA-CSA-101 cross-chapter handout. Audience: students who have completed Ch 5 and are curious about what their synthesized design looks like at the physical layer.
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Instruction & Data Memory Layout
Cross-chapter quick-reference handout for CSA-101. Covers the instruction-memory and data-memory partition for the Virtus Console runtime image.
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Cross-Chapter Handout: LLM and Agentic-System Security Vocabulary Reference
Course companion for: ADV-102 (AI and Agentic Security) Secondary audience: AI-101, AI-201, AI-301, SEC-101 Scope: Belt-3 to Belt-5 Taxonomy authority: OWASP LLM Top 10 (2025 edition), OWASP Agentic S...
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Cross-Chapter Handout: The Phase-1.6 LLM-Tutor 3-Layer Architecture (AI-201 / Belt 4)
Camera-ready handout, 2026-05-07. Audience: VCA-AI-201 students (Belt 4; production-pentest discipline applied to agentic AI). Authoritative source for the LIVE LLM-tutor architecture serving virtuscy...
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Cross-Chapter Handout: The Phase-1.6 LLM-Tutor 3-Layer Architecture (AI-301 / Belt 5; substrate-versus-language bridge)
Camera-ready handout, 2026-05-07. Audience: VCA-AI-301 students (Belt 5; capstone register; substrate-versus-language thesis). Authoritative source for the LIVE LLM-tutor architecture treated as a pro...
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Cross-Chapter PCAP Walkthrough: Fundamentals
Course companion for: NET-101 (primary) + NET-201 + ADV-101 + RE-101 (secondary cross-references) Scope: pcap walkthrough; pairs with the curated catalog manifest Pairs with manifest: pcap-tools/fixtu...
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Petzold *CODE* Reading Guide for CSA-101
Cross-chapter reading guide for CSA-101. Covers all 13 chapters (Ch 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6a, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12). Page numbers are 1st-edition.
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Virtus Academy Course Prerequisite Map
VCA cross-course quick-reference handout. Anchors: website/index.html catalog + the 12 course pages' Prereq sections + 5 (Part-II elective ordering).
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RV32I-Lite Encoding Card
VCA-CSA-101 cross-chapter quick-reference handout. Anchors: §4.5-§4.10; spec source: 5).
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SB6141 Lab-Target Cousin Mapping Card
VCA-CSA-101 cross-chapter quick-reference handout. Anchors: + §23 (VCP); arsenal/motorola-sb6141 firmware analysis (2026-04-16); chapter prose §4.3 (BE-32 thread), §5.7 (heterogeneous-MP), §6a (linker...
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Cross-Chapter Handout: SD Card Format Procedure for Tang Primer 25K / Tang Nano 20K + General Embedded Use
> ## ⚠️ SAFETY BANNER. umount BEFORE PHYSICAL REMOVAL ⚠️ > > A FAT32 card mounted on a Linux host has a kernel write cache that may not have flushed. Pulling the card without umount first can corrupt...
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Silicon-Level Reading Guide
VCA-CSA-101 cross-chapter handout. Audience: students who have completed Ch 5 and shipped their first FPGA bitstream on a Tang Primer 25K.
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Sim Toolchain Quick-Reference
VCA-CSA-101 cross-chapter quick-reference handout. Anchors: §5.10.5 (sim-then-silicon discipline) + Lab 5.6 step-minus-one (sim toolchain pre-flight) + (engineering-side doctrine doc) + (xpm primitive...
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Virtus OS Stdlib Service Reference
VCA-CSA-101 cross-chapter quick-reference handout. Anchors: §11.2 (compiler-side spec) + §12.4-§12.9 (OS-side implementation).
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Synth + PnR Error Class Quick-Reference
VCA-CSA-101 + VCA-CSA-201 cross-chapter quick-reference handout. Anchors: §5.10.5 (sim-then-silicon discipline) + Lab 5.6 (sim toolchain pre-flight) + the Phase 2C KB doc-set ( + kb/build-out/).
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Cross-Chapter Handout: Tang Nano Board Roster (Operator + Pedagogical Reference)
> Scope. Canonical naming convention for the physical Tang Nano boards in the project's hardware-debug rotation. Resolves the "which board was that again?" problem when more than one board is plugged...
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VM 8-Segment Translation Cheat Sheet
VCA-CSA-101 cross-chapter quick-reference handout. Anchor: §7.6 + Ch 8 §8.5-§8.7.
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VOF v1 / v1.1 Layout Reference
Cross-chapter quick-reference handout for CSA-101. Anchors: §6.8 + §6a.2-§6a.4.
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Wireless AKA Progression Cross-Chapter Comparison Sidebar
Cross-chapter shared reference for vca-wir-101 Week 4 (802.11 security protocols -- WEP / WPA-PSK / WPA2 / WPA3-SAE / 802.1X) + vca-rf-301 Ch 4 (RF security primitives -- encryption at RF layer; physi...