EC8552-Computer Architecture and Organization (Class A)
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.
Fixed point Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division. Floating Point arithmetic, High performance arithmetic, Subword parallelism
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.
Memory hierarchy, Memory Chip Organization, Cache memory, Virtual memory. Parallel Bus Architectures, Internal Communication Methodologies, Serial Bus Architectures, Mass storage, Input and Output Devices.
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.
Reference Book:
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. 65 3. Govindarajalu, ―Computer Architecture and Organization, Design Principles and Applications", Second edition, McGraw-Hill Education India Pvt Ltd, 2014.
Text Book:
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)
