CS 7491

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CS 7491
The Great Instruction Set Architectures

Course information provided by the 2019-2020 Catalog.

From the ENIAC to the latest Xeon, the overwhelming majority of computer systems in history have embodied a single programming paradigm: the von Neumann architecture. Machines appear to process streams of instructions one at a time, modifying the state of memory and registers at each step. But far more exotic ISAs are possible. This course is a survey of the breadth of strange and unfamiliar ISA paradigms that have appeared and disappeared over 75 years of computing. This is a reading and discussion seminar that will cover one paper per week.


When Offered Spring.

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  • 18045 CS 7491   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person