CS2071 computer architecture notes

SYLLABUS CS2071  -  COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE UNIT I                        INSTRUCTION SET ARCHITECTURE                                                                    9 Introduction to computer architecture - Review of digital design – Instructions and addressing – procedures and data – assembly language programs – instruction set variations UNIT II                       ARITHMETIC/LOGIC UNIT                                                                                   9 Number representation – design of adders – design of simple ALUs – design of Multipliers and dividers – design of floating point arithmetic unit UNIT III                      DATA PATH AND CONTROL                                                                                 9 Instruction execution steps – control unit synthesis – microprogramming – pipelining – pipeline performance UNIT IV                      MEMORY SYSTEM                                                                                               9 Main Memory concepts – types of memory – cache memory organization – secondary storage –virtual memory – paging UNIT V                       I/O AND INTERFACES                                                                                          9 I/O devices – I/O programming – polling – interrupts – DMA – buses – links – interfacing – context  switching – threads and multithreading                                                                                                                                               TOTAL : 45 PERIODSTEXT BOOKS  1.    1.B. Parhami, “Computer Architecture”, Oxford University Press, 2005. 2.Carl Hamacher, Zvonko Vranesic and Safwat Zaky, “Computer Organization”, Fifth Edition, Tata McGraw Hill, 2002.REFERENCES 1.             1.  David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy, “Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software interface”, Third Edition, Elsevier, 2004. 2.             2.  William Stallings, “Computer Organization and Architecture – Designing for  Performance”, Seventh Edition, Pearson Education, 2006. 3.               3.Miles Murdocca “Computers Architecture and Organization An Integrated approach”,  Wiley India pvt Ltd, 2007 4.           4.John D. Carpinelli, “Computer systems organization and Architecture”, Pearson Education, 2001. UNIT 1: DOWNLOAD UNIT 2: DOWNLOAD UNIT 3: DOWNLOAD UNIT 4: DOWNLOAD UNIT 5: DOWNLOAD