The Computing Technology Inside Your Smartphone

Cornell University
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Explore the fundamental computing technology inside smartphones and the advanced techniques that make them run so fast.
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We use our smartphones to communicate, to organize our lives, to find information, and to entertain ourselves. All of this is possible because a smartphone contains a powerful computer processor, which is the subject of this course. This computer science course starts by moving step-by-step through the fundamental layers of computing technology, from binary numbers to application software, and then covers advanced performance techniques and the details of actual smartphone processors.

Learn about:

  • Digital logic
  • Computer organization
  • Instruction sets
  • Application Software
  • Advanced performance techniques
  • Actual smartphone processors

This Course also provides students with the technical knowledge and the Jade design tool experience to succeed in the more advanced MITx 6.004 MOOC – Computation Structures course sequence.

Instructor(s)

Dave Albonesi
Cornell University
via edX
Free (audit)
Paid Certificate Available
Estimated 10 weeks
Instructor paced
Introductory