Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 6.823 (Fall 2005) 
• Course Title:
• Computer System Architecture 
• Course Level:
• Graduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Michael Ernst
  
   
• Course Introduction:
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  6.823 Computer System Architecture
  
  
  
  

  Fall 2005

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features virtually all of its materials online, including lecture notes in the lecture notes section and problem sets in the assignments section.

  
  
  

  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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