Computer System Architecture

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Internal hardware of a computer. (Photo © openphoto.net. Used with permission.)

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MIT Course Number

6.823

As Taught In

Fall 2005

Level

Graduate

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Course Description

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Course Description

6.823 is a course in the department's "Computer Systems and Architecture" concentration. 6.823 is a study of the evolution of computer architecture and the factors influencing the design of hardware and software elements of computer systems. Topics may include: instruction set design; processor micro-architecture and pipelining; cache and virtual memory organizations; protection and sharing; I/O and interrupts; in-order and out-of-order superscalar architectures; VLIW machines; vector supercomputers; multithreaded architectures; symmetric multiprocessors; and parallel computers.

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Joel Emer, Krste Asanovic, and Arvind. 6.823 Computer System Architecture. Fall 2005. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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