Internal hardware of a computer. (Photo © openphoto.net. Used with permission.)
Instructor(s)
Dr. Joel Emer
Prof. Krste Asanovic
Prof. Arvind
(Lecturer)
MIT Course Number
6.823
As Taught In
Fall 2005
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
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.
