{"id":517,"date":"2010-07-21T20:27:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T00:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/?page_id=517"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:22:12","slug":"cs472","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/academic-programs\/courses\/cs472\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<style><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span> p {margin-bottom:0px;} .course-feed .cf-course h4 {display: none; white-space: wrap;} .button{width:125px;}<\/style>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"course-feed\"><div class=\"cf-course\">\n\t<h4>Computer Architecture<\/h4>\n\t<p class=\"meta\">MET CS 472 (4 credits)<\/p>\n\t\n\t<p>Prerequisites: MET CS 232 or consent of instructor. Computer organization with emphasis on processors, memory, and input\/output. Includes pipelining, ALUs, caches, virtual memory, parallelism, measuring performance, and basic operating systems concepts. Discussion of assembly language instruction sets and programming, as well as internal representation of instructions.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<p class=\"\"><em>2026SPRGMETCS472A1, Jan 20th to Apr 30th 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-table\">\n<table>\n\t<tr>\n\t\t<th>Days<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Start<\/th>\n\t\t<th>End<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Type<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Bldg<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Room<\/th>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t<tr>\n\t<td>M<\/td>\n\t<td>06:00 PM<\/td>\n\t<td>08:45 PM<\/td>\n\t<td><\/td>\n\t<td>BRB<\/td>\n\t<td>122<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Format &amp; Syllabus:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"btn-group\">\n<div class=\"dropdown\">\n<p><button class=\"button\">On Campus<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"dropdown-content\"><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/05\/CS472-SUM25.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/09\/2025_Fall_BU_CS472_syllabus.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2026\/01\/2026_Spring_BU_CS472_syllabus.pdf\">CS472 SPRG26<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/09\/2025_Fall_BU_CS472_syllabus.pdf\">CS472 FALL25<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/05\/CS472-SUM25.pdf\">CS472 SUM25<\/a> <a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/01\/2025_Spring_BU_CS472_syllabus-1.pdf\">CS472 SPRG25<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/01\/2025_Spring_BU_CS472_syllabus.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2024\/08\/472-2024_Fall_BU_CS_syllabus.pdf\">CS472 FALL24<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2024\/01\/CS-472-David-Hendrickson.pdf\">CS472 SP24<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2023\/09\/2023_Fall_BU_CS472_syllabus.pdf\">CS472FALL23<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2023\/01\/2023_Spring_BU_CS472_syllabus.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2023\/01\/2023_Spring_BU_CS472_syllabus.pdf\">CS472 SP23<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2022\/06\/2022_Summer_BU_CS472_syllabus.pdf\">CS472 SUM22<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2022\/01\/2022_Spring_BU_CS472_syllabus.pdf\">CS472 SPRG22<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2021\/09\/2021_Fall_BU_CS472_syllabus.pdf\">CS472 FALL21<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2021\/05\/2021_Summer_BU_CS472_syllabus.pdf\">CS472 SUM21<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2021\/01\/CS472-A1-Spring-2021.pdf\">CS472 SPRG21<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2020\/09\/METCS472_Fall20_Hendrickson.pdf\">CS472 FALL20<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2020\/07\/MET-CS-472-2020-Hendrickson.pdf\">CS472 SUM20<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2020\/02\/2020_Spring_BU_CS472_syllabus.pdf\">CS472 SPRG20<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2019\/10\/CS472_A1_Syllabus_FALL-2019.pdf\">CS472 FALL19<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2019\/08\/CS472_SC1_Syllabus_Summer-2019.pdf\">CS472 SUM19<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2019\/08\/CS472_D1_EX_Syllabus_Spring-2019.pdf\">CS472 SPRG19<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/11\/2018_Fall_BU_CS472_syllabus-updated.pdf\">CS472 FALL18<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/05\/CS-472_C1_Sum-2018.pdf\">CS472 SUM18<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/05\/2018_Spring_BU_CS472_syllabus.pdf\">CS472 SPRG18<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/05\/CS472_Fall-2017.pdf\">CS472 FALL17<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/05\/CS472-C1_Summer-2017.pdf\">CS472 SUM17<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/05\/CS472_C1_Spring-2017.pdf\">CS472 SPRG17<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2016\/04\/CS472_SC1_Sum20161.doc\">CS472 SUM16<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dropdown\"><button class=\"button\" disabled=\"disabled\">Online<\/button><\/div>\n<div class=\"dropdown\"><button class=\"button\" disabled=\"disabled\">Blended<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfloat\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Format &amp; 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