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Jimma University

Jimma Institute of Technology


Faculty of Computing and Informatics
Department of Software Engineering
Course Title: Computer Organization and Architecture
Course Code: SEng 2031
Credit Hrs. 3 hrs ECTS: 5

Course Objectives
By the end of this course, students will be able to:

 Describe the basic structure and operation of a digital computer


 Explain basic concepts of circuits and their design
 Understand the fundamentals of numerical data representation and manipulation in digital
computers.
 Identify the processes involved in the basic operations of CPU
 Explain the factors involved in instruction set architecture design.
 Describe the concepts of hierarchical memory organization.
 Identify how I/O systems work, including I/O methods and architectures.
 Explain storage media, and their differences in their respective formats.

Course Outline
Chapter 1:
1.1 Introduction to Digital Computer 2.3. Fixed-point representation
1.2 The Computer Level Hierarchy 2.4. Other binary code
1.3 Von Neumann Mode Chapter 3: Register Transfer Language and
Micro Operations
1.4 Non-Von Neumann Mode
1.5 Logic gates and Boolean algebra 3.1. Register transfer
3.2 Register transfer languages
1.6 Common digital components 3.3. Bus and memory transfer
 Integrated circuit 3.4. Micro operations
 Registers
Chapter 4: Basic Computer Organization and
 Binary counter
Design
 Memory units 4.1. Instruction code
 Combinational circuit 4.2. Computer Registers
 Sequential circuit 4.3 Computer Instructions
4.4 Instruction Processing
Chapter 2: Number system and codes 4.5. Interrupts
2.1. Data types
2.2. Complements

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6.5 Virtual Memory

Chapter 7: Input-Output and Storage Systems


Chapter 5: Central processing unit 7.1 Introduction
5.1. General register organization 7.2 Input-Output Architectures
5.2. Instruction formats 7.3 Magnetic Disk Technology
5.3 . Addressing modes 7.4 Optical Disks
5.4 . Characteristics of RISC and CISC 7.5 Magnetic tapes
7.6 RAID technology
Chapter 6: Memory Organization
Chapter 8: Pipeline and parallel processing
6.1 Introduction
8.1 Multi-processor
6.2 Types of Memory
8.2 Parallel processing
6.3 The Memory Hierarchy
8.3 Pipeline
6.4 Cache Memory

Assessment method
Mid exam 30%
Assignment 20%
Final exam 50%
Total 100%

Reference books:
 Computer System Architecture, M. Morris Mano,3rd Edition, 1993
 Linda Null and Julia Lobur, the essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture.
 William Stalling, Computer Organization and Architecture: Designing for Performance, 7 th Edition,
Prentice Hall, 2006
 Andrew S. Tannenbaum, Structured Computer Organization, 4 th Edition, Prentice Hall, 1999

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