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This document outlines the objectives and content of a course on computer architecture and organization. The objectives are to understand instruction set architectures and their relationship to CPU design, computer arithmetic and the ALU, memory systems and I/O organization, modern CPU operation including interfacing, pipelining, and memory, and multiprocessor system operation. The course content is divided into six units covering basic computer structure, computer arithmetic, register transfer language and micro-operations, microprogrammed control, memory systems, input-output organization, pipelining and vector processing, and multiprocessors.

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Cao Syllabus

This document outlines the objectives and content of a course on computer architecture and organization. The objectives are to understand instruction set architectures and their relationship to CPU design, computer arithmetic and the ALU, memory systems and I/O organization, modern CPU operation including interfacing, pipelining, and memory, and multiprocessor system operation. The course content is divided into six units covering basic computer structure, computer arithmetic, register transfer language and micro-operations, microprogrammed control, memory systems, input-output organization, pipelining and vector processing, and multiprocessors.

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COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND ORGANIZATION

Objectives
The student will Understand the fundamentals of different instruction set
architectures and their relationship to the CPU design.
Understand the principles and the implementation of computer
arithmetic and ALU.
Understand the memory system, I/O organization
Understand the operation of modern CPUs including interfacing, pipelining,
memory systems and busses.
Understand the principles of operation of multiprocessor systems.
UNIT-I
BASIC STRUCTURE OF COMPUTERS: Computer Types, Functional
units, Basic operational concepts, Bus structures, Software, Performance,
multiprocessors and multi computers. Data types, Complements, Data
Representation. Fixed Point Representation. Floating Point Representation.
Error Detection codes.
COMPUTER ARITHMETIC: Addition and subtraction, multiplication
Algorithms, Division Algorithms, Floating point Arithmetic operations.
Decimal Arithmetic unit, Decimal Arithmetic operations.
UNIT-II
REGISTER TRANSFER LANGUAGE AND MICRO-OPERATIONS:
Register Transfer language. Register Transfer, Bus and memory transfer,
Arithmetic Micro-operations, logic micro operations, shift micro-operations,
Arithmetic logic shift unit. Instruction codes. Computer Registers Computer
instructions Instruction cycle. Memory Reference Instructions. Input Output
and Interrupt. CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT - Stack organization.
Instruction formats. Addressing modes. DATA Transfer and manipulation.
Program control. Reduced Instruction set computer.
UNIT-III
MICRO PROGRAMMED CONTROL: Control memory, Address
sequencing, micro program example, Design of control unit-Hard wired
control. Micro programmed control.
UNIT-IV
THE MEMORY SYSTEM: Memory Hierarchy, Main memory, Auxiliary
memory, Associative memory, Cache memory, Virtual memory, Memory
management hardware.
UNIT-V
INPUT-OUTPUT ORGANIZATION : Peripheral Devices, Input-Output
Interface, Asynchronous data transfer Modes of Transfer, Priority Interrupt,

Direct memory Access, Input Output Processor (IOP), Serial communication.


UNIT-VI
PIPELINE AND VECTOR PROCESSING: Parallel Processing,
Pipelining, Arithmetic Pipeline, Instruction Pipeline, RISC Pipeline Vector
Processing, Array Processors. Multi processors: Characteristics of
Multiprocessors, Interconnection Structures, Interprocessor Arbitration.
Interprocessor Communication and Synchronization, Cache Coherence.
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Computer System Architecture M.Moris Mano, IIIrd Edition, PHI /
Pearson, 2006.
2. Computer Organization Car Hamacher, ZvonksVranesic, SafwatZaky,
V Edition, McGraw Hill, 2002.
REFERENCES:
1. Computer Organization and Architecture William Stallings Seventh
Edition, PHI/Pearson, 2006.
2. Computer Architecture and Organization John P. Hayes, Mc Graw
Hill International editions, 1998.
Objectives :
Understand the fundamentals of different instruction set
architectures and their relationship to the CPU design.
Understand the principles and the implementation of computer
arithmetic and ALU.
Understand the memory system, I/O organization
Understand the operation of modern CPUs including interfacing,
pipelining, memory systems and busses.
Understand the principles of operation of multiprocessor systems.
Demonstrate the relationship between the software and the hardware
and focuses on the foundational concepts that are the basis for
current computer design.
Electronics

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