Ec2303 Computer Architecture And Organization Syllabus

EC2303 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND ORGANIZATION SYLLABUS

UNIT I INTRODUCTION 9

Computing and Computers, Evolution of Computers, VLSI Era, System Design- Register

Level, Processor - Level, CPU Organization, Data Representation, Fixed – Point

Numbers, Floating Point Numbers, Instruction Formats, Instruction Types. Addressing

modes.

UNIT II DATA PATH DESIGN 9

Fixed Point Arithmetic, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division, Combinational

and Sequential ALUs, Carry look ahead adder, Robertson algorithm, booth’s algorithm,

non-restoring division algorithm, Floating Point Arithmetic, Coprocessor, Pipeline

Processing, Pipeline Design, Modified booth’s Algorithm.

UNIT III CONTROL DESIGN 9

Hardwired Control, Microprogrammed Control, Multiplier Control Unit, CPU Control Unit,

Pipeline Control, Instruction Pipelines, Pipeline Performance, Superscalar Processing,

Nano Programming.

UNIT IV MEMORY ORGANIZATION 9

Random Access Memories, Serial - Access Memories, RAM Interfaces, Magnetic

Surface Recording, Optical Memories, multilevel memories, Cache & Virtual Memory,

Memory Allocation, Associative Memory.

UNIT V SYSTEM ORGANIZATION 9

Communication methods, Buses, Bus Control, Bus Interfacing, Bus arbitration, IO and

system control, IO interface circuits, Handshaking, DMA and interrupts, vectored

interrupts, PCI interrupts, pipeline interrupts, IOP organization, operation systems,

multiprocessors, fault tolerance, RISC and CISC processors, Superscalar and vector

processor.

TOTAL= 45 PERIODS

TEXTBOOKS:

1. John P.Hayes, ‘Computer architecture and Organisation’, Tata McGraw-Hill, Third

edition, 1998.

2. V.Carl Hamacher, Zvonko G. Varanesic and Safat G. Zaky, “ Computer

Organisation“, V edition, McGraw-Hill Inc, 1996.

REFERENCES:

1. Morris Mano, “Computer System Architecture”, Prentice-Hall of India, 2000.

2. Paraami, “Computer Architecture”, BEH R002, Oxford Press.

3. P.Pal Chaudhuri, , “Computer organization and design”, 2nd Ed., Prentice Hall of

India, 2007.

4. G.Kane & J.Heinrich, ‘ MIPS RISC Architecture ‘, Englewood cliffs, New Jersey,

Prentice Hall, 1992.