Unit 1

Introduction to computer system – Brief history of computer systems – Fixed point arithmetic – Addition – Subtraction – Multiplication and division – Booth’s algorithm – Non-restoring division algorithm – Floating point arithmetic – Various addressing modes and designing of an Instruction set.

Unit 2

Data path and controller design – Introduction to CPU design – Processor organization – Execution of complete Instruction – Design of control unit -Hardwired Control – Microprogrammed Control.

Unit 3

Memory and system organization – Concepts of semiconductor memory – CPU-memory interaction – Organization of memory modules – Cache memory and related mapping and replacement policies – Virtual memory – Input/output Processing – Introduction to Interrupts and DMA – Introduction to RISC and CISC approaches.

• V. Carl Hamacher, Zvonko G. Varanesic and Safat G. Zaky, “Computer Organisation”, Fifth edition, Indian Edition, McGraw-Hill Education, 2011.
• John P. Hayes, “Computer architecture and Organisation”, Indian Edition, McGraw-Hill Education, 2017

• M. Morris Mano, “Computer System Architecture”, Third Edition, Pearson Education, 2007.
• BehroozParhami, “Computer Architecture”, Indian Edition, Oxford University Press, 2012.

Evaluation Pattern

Objectives

• To introduce the basic organization of a computer system
• To learn the functioning of data path and control path elements in a processor
• To understand the memory organization of a processor system
• To understand the input-output operations in a processor system

Course Outcomes

• CO1: Able to comprehend operations and arithmeticof computer systems
• CO2: Able toidentify data-path and control-path operations involved in the execution of a processor instruction
• CO3: Able to understand and analyze the CPU, memory and IO architecture of a processor at the system level
• CO4: Able to analyze the trade-offs involved in the CPU and memory organization of a processor system

CO – PO Mapping