Advanced Microprocessors
1. Overview of new generation of modern microprocessors
2. Advanced Intel Microprocessors: Protected mode operation of X86 Intel family;
study of Pentium: superscalar architecture and pipelining, register set andspecial
instructions, memory management, cache organization, bus operation, branch prediction
logic.
3.Study of pentium family of processors: Pentium, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4,
Pentium V: architectural features,comparative study.
4. Advanced RISC microprocessors: Overview of RISC development and current
systems, Alpha AXP architecture, Alpha AXP implementations and applications.
5. Study of sun Sparc family:SPARC architecture, the super SPARC, SPARC
implementations.
6.Standard for bus architectureand ports: EISA,VESA, PCI, SCSI, PCMCIA cards
and slots ,ATA , ATAPI, LTP, USB,AGP,RAID
7.System Architectures for desktop and server-based systems: study of memory
subsystems and I/O subsystems. Integration issues
Text books:
1.DanielTabak, ‘Advanced Microprocessors’,McGraw-Hill
2.BarryB.Brey, The Intel Microprocessors, Architecture,Programming and interfacing
3.Tom Shanley, Pentium Processor System Architecture, Addison Wesley Press
References:
1. Ray and Bhurchandi, ‘Advanced MicroprocessorsandPeripherals’, TMH
2. James Antonakos, ‘The Pentium Microprocessor’,Pearson Education
3. Badri Ram,’Advanced Microprocessors andInterfacing’, TMH Publication
4. Intel Manuals
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