SYLLABUS:
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UNIT |
DETAILS |
HOURS |
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I |
Introduction: Difference between Architecture, Organisation and Hardware, Review of basic operational concepts – Stored program concept, Instruction sequencing, bus structure, Software support- translating and executing a program- assembler, linker, loader, OS, Instruction types and Addressing modes. CPU Performance and its factors, Performance evaluation, The Power wall, Switch from uniprocessors to multiprocessors, Basic concepts of pipelining, superscalar architecture and multithreading, Instruction level parallelism (basic idea only). |
12 |
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II |
Processor Organisation: Control Unit design: Execution of a complete instruction, Single bus and multibus organisation, Sequencing of control signals, Hardwired control unit, Microprogrammed control unit. Arithmetic and logic design – review of signed and unsigned binary arithmetic, fast adders, Array multiplier, sequential multiplier, Booth’s algorithm, fast multiplication methods, integer division – restoring and non-restoring methods, floating point numbers. |
12 |
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III |
Memory and I/O Organisation: Memory hierarchy, Memory characteristics, Internal organization of semiconductor RAM memories, Static and Dynamic RAM memories, flash memory, Cache memory – mapping function, replacement algorithm, measurement and improvement of cache performance, Virtual memory and address translation, MMU. Secondary memories – magnetic and optical disks, I/O accessing – Programmed, Interrupt driven and DMA, Buses- synchronous and asynchronous, bus standards. |
12 |
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IV |
Parallel Processing: Enhancing performance with pipelining-overview, Designing instruction set for pipelining, pipelined datapath, Hazards in pipelining. Flynn’s classification, Multicore processors and Multithreading, Multiprocessor systems-Interconnection networks, Multicomputer systems, Clusters and other message passing architecture. |
12 |
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V |
PC Hardware: Today’s PC architecture – block diagram, Familiarisation of PC hardware components. Processor - Pentium series to higher processors - single core, hyperthreading, dual core, multi core and many core processors (brief idea about evolution and improvements in performance) Motherboard – Typical architecture , Essential Chipsets, Sockets, Slots and ports – serial, parallel, USB, RAM , Brief idea about buses, Subsystems (Network, Sound and Graphics, Ethernet port), Storage devices : Hard Disks-Types and Classification based on interface- Optical Storage – CD, DVD, BLURAY SMPS – Functions, power connectors. Typical specifications for a computer |
12 |
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TOTAL HOURS |
60 |
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COURSE OBJECTIVES:
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Sl. No. |
DESCRIPTION |
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1 |
To impart the basic concepts of architecture and organization of computers |
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2 |
To develop understanding about pipelining and parallel processing techniques |
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3 |
To impart knowledge about the current PC hardware |