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This document provides an overview of a course on computer architecture and organization. It outlines the prerequisites, resources, course contents, grading structure, and introduces some key concepts. The course will cover computer organization, how hardware components are connected and operate, and computer architecture, the structure and behavior as seen by the user including instruction sets and addressing memory. It discusses the basics of digital computers including binary number systems, hardware and software components, and how studying computer architecture and organization helps understand performance and write better software. The next lecture will cover register transfer language.

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This document provides an overview of a course on computer architecture and organization. It outlines the prerequisites, resources, course contents, grading structure, and introduces some key concepts. The course will cover computer organization, how hardware components are connected and operate, and computer architecture, the structure and behavior as seen by the user including instruction sets and addressing memory. It discusses the basics of digital computers including binary number systems, hardware and software components, and how studying computer architecture and organization helps understand performance and write better software. The next lecture will cover register transfer language.

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COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

& ORGANIZATION
LECTURE # 1
Course Prerequisites
Before Taking This Course..
• You should be comfortable with…
• Digital logic and design
• Need to have basic understanding of digital systems,
logic gates, Boolean functions, Number systems,
combinational and sequential logic etc
• Basic computer organization: CPU, Memory, I/O,
Registers.
• Basic programming concepts
• fundamentals to programming, Sequence of
commands , Conditional structures ,looping
structures. Programming strategies etc.
Resources

• Readings
– Computer System Architecture (3rd Ed) by M Morris
Mano
– Lecture slides

• Internet Resources
– Online video lectures
– Groups and discussion forums
– EBooks and so on.
Course Contents
Grading/Marks Information
• Distribution of Marks
• Attendance 10
• Test(s) 05
• Assignments 05
• Mid Semester Exam: 20
• Final Semester Exam: 60

• Policies
– Attendance is required
– All submitted work must be yours
– Cheating will not be tolerated
Computer Organization
• Computer Organization is concerned with
the way the hardware components operate
and the way they are connected together
to form the computer system.
• The various components are assumed to
be in place and the task is to investigate
the organizational structure to verify that
the computer parts operation as intended.
Computer Architecture
• Computer Architecture is concerned with
the structure and behavior of the computer
as seen by the user.
• It includes the information formats, the
instruction set and techniques for
addressing memory
Architecture & Organization
COMPUTER COMPUTER
ARCHITECTURE ORGANIZATION
• Attribute of a system • Operational units and
visible to a programmer their interconnection that
or, those attribute that realize the architectural
have direct impact on the specifications
logical execution of a • Control signals,
program. interfaces, memory
• Instruction set, number technology
of bits used for data
representation, I/O
mechanisms,
addressing techniques.
Basics of Digital Computers
• The digital computer is a digital system that
performs various computational tasks

• The decimal digits 0, 1, 2,….,9, provide 10


discrete values, but digital computers function
more reliably if only two states are used.

• Digital computers use binary number system


Basics of Digital Computers
• ‹Bit = binary digit : 0/1
• Digital Computer = H/W + S/W
• Program(S/W)
– A sequence of instruction
– S/W = Program + Data
– The data that are manipulated by the program
constitute the data base
– Application S/W = DB, word processor,
Spread Sheet
– System S/W = OS, Firmware, Compiler,
Device Driver.
Basics of Digital Computers
• Computer Hardware(H/W)
– CPU
– Memory
• Program Memory(ROM)
• Data Memory(RAM)
• ‹I/O Device

Computer Architecture &


organization
• Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)
Logic Gates
Why we Study Computer
Architecture and Organization?
• Understand high-level design concepts
– The best architects understand all the levels
• Devices, circuits, architecture, compiler,
applications

• Understand computer performance


– Writing well-tuned (fast) software requires knowledge
of hardware

• Write better software


– The best software designers also understand
hardware
– Need to understand hardware to write fast software
Next Lecture (Lecture # 2)
• Register Transfer Language

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