Computation Structures — 8 Design Tradeoffs

Art: not stated, Fletcher's Combined Block Telegraph Apparatus and Bell, 1889 · Public domain

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Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 6.004 Computation Structures, Spring 2017, Chris Terman — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: this unit's sessions in MIT's listing order. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.

Instructor: Chris Terman
Term: Spring 2017
Level: Undergraduate
What's inside: 6 videos
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Computation Structures — 8 Design Tradeoffs

Power Dissipation (11:48)

Carry-select Adders (5:40)

Carry-lookahead Adders (5:19)

Binary Multiplication (6:03)

Multiplier Tradeoffs (5:13)

Part 1 Wrap-up (3:02)