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CS8552-Computer Architecture and Organization

This document outlines the objectives and units of a course on computer architecture and organization. The objectives are to understand computer structure and operation, fixed and floating point arithmetic, data path and control unit design, memory interfacing, and parallel processing techniques. The 5 units cover computer organization and instructions, arithmetic, the processor, memory and I/O organization, and advanced computer architectures including parallel processing, multicore systems, and graphics processing units. The outcomes are for students to describe computer fundamentals, illustrate ALU operations, discuss control unit and pipelining, explain memory organization and multiple processors, and discuss parallel techniques and unconventional architectures.

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CS8552-Computer Architecture and Organization

This document outlines the objectives and units of a course on computer architecture and organization. The objectives are to understand computer structure and operation, fixed and floating point arithmetic, data path and control unit design, memory interfacing, and parallel processing techniques. The 5 units cover computer organization and instructions, arithmetic, the processor, memory and I/O organization, and advanced computer architectures including parallel processing, multicore systems, and graphics processing units. The outcomes are for students to describe computer fundamentals, illustrate ALU operations, discuss control unit and pipelining, explain memory organization and multiple processors, and discuss parallel techniques and unconventional architectures.

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EC8552 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND ORGANIZATION L T PC

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OBJECTIVES:

 To make students understand the basic structure and operation of digital computer
 To familiarize with implementation of fixed point and floating-point arithmetic
operations
 To study the design of data path unit and control unit for processor
 To understand the concept of various memories and interfacing
 To introduce the parallel processing technique

UNIT I COMPUTER ORGANIZATION & INSTRUCTIONS 9

Basics of a computer system: Evolution, Ideas, Technology, Performance, Power wall,


Uniprocessors to Multiprocessors. Addressing and addressing modes. Instructions:
Operations and Operands, Representing instructions, Logical operations, control operations.

UNIT II ARITHMETIC 9

Fixed point Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division. Floating Point arithmetic,
High performance arithmetic, Subword parallelism

UNIT III THE PROCESSOR 9


Introduction, Logic Design Conventions, Building a Datapath - A Simple Implementation
scheme - An Overview of Pipelining - Pipelined Datapath and Control. Data Hazards:
Forwarding versus Stalling, Control Hazards, Exceptions, Parallelism via Instructions.

UNIT IV MEMORY AND I/O ORGANIZATION 9

Memory hierarchy, Memory Chip Organization, Cache memory, Virtual memory. Parallel
Bus Architectures, Internal Communication Methodologies, Serial Bus Architectures, Mass
storage, Input and Output Devices.

UNIT V ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE 9

Parallel processing architectures and challenges, Hardware multithreading, Multicore and


shared memory multiprocessors, Introduction to Graphics Processing Units, Clusters and
Warehouse scale computers - Introduction to Multiprocessor network topologies.

TOTAL:45 PERIODS

OUTCOMES:

At the end of the course, the student should be able to

 Describe data representation, instruction formats and the operation of a digital


computer
 Illustrate the fixed point and floating-point arithmetic for ALU operation
 Discuss about implementation schemes of control unit and pipeline performance
 Explain the concept of various memories, interfacing and organization of multiple
processors
 Discuss parallel processing technique and unconventional architectures
TEXT BOOKS:

1. David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessey, ―Computer Organization and Design‖, Fifth
edition, Morgan Kauffman / Elsevier, 2014. (UNIT I-V)

2. Miles J. Murdocca and Vincent P. Heuring, ―Computer Architecture and Organization:


An Integrated approach‖, Second edition, Wiley India Pvt Ltd, 2015 (UNIT IV,V)

REFERENCES

1. V. Carl Hamacher, Zvonko G. Varanesic and Safat G. Zaky, ―Computer Organization―,


Fifth edition, Mc Graw-Hill Education India Pvt Ltd, 2014.

2. William Stallings ―Computer Organization and Architecture‖, Seventh Edition, Pearson


Education, 2006.

3. Govindarajalu, ―Computer Architecture and Organization, Design Principles and


Applications", Second edition, McGraw-Hill Education India Pvt Ltd, 2014.

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