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SYLLABUS
Computer Organization and Architecture/Introduction to
Computer Organization and Architecture

Objectives: The objectives of this course are:
To understand how computers are constructed out of a set of functional units
To understand how these functional units operate, interact and communicate

To understand the factors and trade-offs that affect computer performance
To understand concrete representation of data at the machine level
To understand how computations are actually performed at the machine level
To understand how problems expressed by humans are expressed as binary strings in a machine

DCAP502 COMPUTER ORGANIZATION AND ARCHITECTURE

Sr. No. Description
1. Review of Basics of Digital Electronics: Codes, logic gates, flip flops, registers, counters, multiplexer,
demultiplexer, decoder, and encoder.
2. Integers Representation: Signed Magnitude, 1s & 2s Complement) & Real numbers (Fixed point &
Floating Point representation), Register Transfer and Micro operations: Register transfer language Bus
& memory transfer, logic micro operation, shift micro operation, Arithmetic Logic Shift Unit
3. Basic Computer Organization: Instruction codes, computer instructions, timing & control, instruction
cycles
4. Memory reference instruction, Input/output & interrupts, Design of basic computer Control Unit:
Hardwired vs. micro programmed control unit, Control Memory, Address Sequencing, Micro program
Sequencer
5. Central Processing Unit: General register organization, stack organization, instruction format,
Addressing Modes Data transfer & manipulation, program control, RISC, CISC.
6. Introduction to Parallel Processing: Pipelining, Instruction pipeline, RISC Pipeline, Vector Processing
7. Computer Arithmetic: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication & Division Algorithm(s),
Decimal arithmetic units & Operations.
8. Input-Output Organization: Peripheral devices, I/O interface, data transfer schemes, program control,
interrupt, DMA transfer, I/O Processor
9. Memory Organization Concepts: Cache & Virtual memory
10. Multiprocessors: Characteristics, Interconnection Structures, Interprocessor Communication and
synchronization