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CS1251 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
Posted Date: 20 Feb 2008 Resource Type: Articles/Knowledge Sharing Category: General
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Posted By: Nithya Krishna Member Level: Gold
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CS1251 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
UNIT I BASIC STRUCTURE OF COMPUTERS
Functional units - Basic operational concepts - Bus structures - Software performance – Memory locations and addresses – Memory operations – Instruction and instruction sequencing – Addressing modes – Assembly language – Basic I/O operations – Stacks and queues.
UNIT II ARITHMETIC UNIT
Addition and subtraction of signed numbers – Design of fast adders – Multiplication of positive numbers - Signed operand multiplication and fast multiplication – Integer division – Floating point numbers and operations.
UNIT III BASIC PROCESSING UNIT
Fundamental concepts – Execution of a complete instruction – Multiple bus organization – Hardwired control – Microprogrammed control - Pipelining – Basic concepts – Data hazards – Instruction hazards – Influence on Instruction sets – Data path and control consideration – Superscalar operation.
UNIT IV MEMORY SYSTEM
Basic concepts – Semiconductor RAMs - ROMs – Speed - size and cost – Cache memories - Performance consideration – Virtual memory- Memory Management requirements – Secondary storage.
UNIT V I/O ORGANIZATION
Accessing I/O devices – Interrupts – Direct Memory Access – Buses – Interface circuits – Standard I/O Interfaces (PCI, SCSI, USB).
TEXT BOOKS
1. Carl Hamacher, Zvonko Vranesic and Safwat Zaky, 5th Edition “Computer Organization”, McGraw-Hill, 2002.
REFERENCES
1. William Stallings, “Computer Organization and Architecture – Designing for Performance”, 6th Edition, Pearson Education, 2003.
2. David A.Patterson and John L.Hennessy, “Computer Organization and Design: The hardware / software interface”, 2nd Edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2002.
3. John P.Hayes, “Computer Architecture and Organization”, 3rd Edition, McGraw Hill, 1998.
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