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Course Detail

Course Name Computer Systems and Architecture
Course Code 19CCE302
Program B. Tech. in Computer and Communication Engineering
Semester Five
Year Taught 2019

Syllabus

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.

Textbook

  • 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

Reference

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

Evaluation Pattern

Assessment Internal External
Periodical 1 (P1) 15
Periodical 2 (P2) 15
*Continuous Assessment (CA) 20
End Semester 50
*CA – Can be Quizzes, Assignment, Projects, and Reports.

Objectives and Outcomes

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

PO/PSO/CO PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PO6 PO7 PO8 PO9 PO10 PO11 PO12 PSO1 PSO2
CO1 3 2
CO2 3 2 2
CO3 3 2 2
CO4 3 2 2

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