Functional units – Basic operational concepts – Bus Structures – Performance – Memory locations and addresses – Memory operations – Instruction and Instruction sequencing –– Addressing modes – Assembly language – Case study : RISC and CISC Architecture.
Addition and subtraction of signed numbers – Design of fast adders – Multiplication of positive numbers - Signed operand multiplication- fast multiplication – Integer division – Floating point numbers and operations
Fundamental concepts – Execution of a complete instruction – Multiple bus organization – Hardwired control – Micro programmed control – Pipelining: Basic concepts – Data hazards – Instruction hazards – Influence on Instruction sets – Data path and control consideration.
Basic concepts of Semiconductor RAMs - ROMs – Speed, Size and Cost – Cache memories – Performance consideration – Virtual memory – Memory Management requirements – Secondary storage - Case Study: Memory Organization in Multiprocessors
Accessing I/O devices – Interrupts – Direct Memory Access – Buses–Interface circuits – Standard I/O Interfaces (PCI, SCSI, USB) –Instruction Level Parallelism : Concepts and Challenges – Introduction to multicore processor – Graphics Processing Unit
Reference Book:
1 David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessey, “Computer organization and design”, MorganKauffman /Elsevier, 5th edition, 2014. 2 William Stallings, “Computer Organization and Architecture designing for Performance”, Pearson Education 8th Edition, 2010 3 John P.Hayes, “Computer Architecture and Organization”, McGraw Hill, 3rd Edition, 2002 4 M. Morris R. Mano “Computer System Architecture” 3rd Edition 2007 5 David A. Patterson “Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach”, Morgan Kaufmann; 5th edition 2011
Text Book:
Carl Hamacher, Zvonko Vranesic and Safwat Zaky, “Computer Organization”, McGraw-Hill, 6th Edition 2012. (