Computer System Design: Concepts of Modern Microprocessors

Inside Modern Processors: Multicore to Performance

A multicore CPU is an orchestra: processors and memory hierarchies must coordinate to execute programs efficiently. This course reveals the anatomy—how a single instruction becomes a physical event on silicon, how programs execute at the microprocessor level, and how engineers balance performance against energy consumption. You'll move from fundamentals to advanced design concepts that define modern computing.

For computer science and engineering students ready to understand not just what code does, but how the machine running it actually works.