CMSC411

Computer Systems Architecture

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Prerequisite: Minimum grade of C- in CMSC330; or must be in the (Computer Science (Doctoral), Computer Science (Master's)) program. Restriction: Permission of CMNS-Computer Science department. Credit only granted for: ENEE446 or CMSC411. Input/output processors and techniques. Intra-system communication, buses, caches. Addressing and memory hierarchies. Microprogramming, parallelism, and pipelining.

Spring 2026

Ilchul Yoon

19 reviews
Average rating: 2.63

Bahar Asgari

16 reviews
Average rating: 4.44

Fall 2025

Ilchul Yoon

19 reviews
Average rating: 2.63

Summer 2025

Ilchul Yoon

19 reviews
Average rating: 2.63

Spring 2025

Bahar Asgari

16 reviews
Average rating: 4.44

Past Semesters

Ilchul Yoon

19 reviews
Average rating: 2.63

Bahar Asgari

16 reviews
Average rating: 4.44

Ilchul Yoon

19 reviews
Average rating: 2.63

Ilchul Yoon

19 reviews
Average rating: 2.63

Ilchul Yoon

19 reviews
Average rating: 2.63

Bahar Asgari

16 reviews
Average rating: 4.44

Ilchul Yoon

19 reviews
Average rating: 2.63

Ilchul Yoon

19 reviews
Average rating: 2.63

Michelle Hugue

27 reviews
Average rating: 1.48

Ilchul Yoon

19 reviews
Average rating: 2.63

Alan Sussman

0 reviews
Average rating: N/A

Chau-Wen Tseng

0 reviews
Average rating: N/A

Include P/F semesters During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 2.89 between 2,663 students*

A-: 10.78%

A: 12.65%

A+: 7.47%

B-: 11.34%

B: 16%

B+: 13.89%

C-: 4.06%

C: 7.06%

C+: 8.94%

D: 1.35%

D+: 0.41%

F: 1.99%

W: 3.87%

other: 0.19%

* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.