10144EC605 COMPUTER ARCITECTURE AND ORGANIZATION L T P C-3 0 0 3

UNIT1 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 2 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, nonrestoring

division algorithm, Floating Point Arithmetic, Coprocessor, Pipeline

Processing, Pipeline Design, Modified booth’s Algorithm

UNIT 3 CONTROL DESIGN 9

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

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

Programming.

UNIT 4 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 5 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”, Pearson Education, 2000.

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

India, 2007

3. Rao, “Computer system Architecture”, PHI, 2009.