COMPUTER ORGANIZATION AND ARCHITECTURE(18EC35 )

COMPUTER ORGANIZATION AND ARCHITECTURE

Course Code:18EC35

CIE Marks:40

SEE Marks:60
Number of Lecture Hours/Week:03

Total Number of Lecture Hours :40 (08Hours per Module)

Exam Hours:03

CREDITS– 03

Course Learning Objectives: This course will enable students to:

• Explain the basic sub systems of a computer, their organization, structure and operation.
• Illustrate the concept of programs as sequences of machine instructions.
• Demonstrate different ways of communicating with I/O devices
• Describe memory hierarchy and concept of virtual memory.
• Illustrate organization of simple pipelined processor and other computing systems.

Module 1

Basic Structure of Computers: Computer Types, Functional Units, Basic Operational Concepts, Bus Structures, Software, Performance – Processor Clock, Basic Performance Equation (upto 1.6.2 of Chap 1 of Text).
Machine Instructions and Programs: Numbers, Arithmetic Operations and Characters, IEEE standard for Floating point Numbers, Memory Location and Addresses, Memory Operations, Instructions and Instruction Sequencing (upto 2.4.6 of Chap 2 and 6.7.1 of Chap 6 of Text).

Module 2

Addressing Modes, Assembly Language, Basic Input and Output Operations, Stacks and Queues, Subroutines, Additional Instructions (from 2.4.7 of Chap 2, except 2.9.3, 2.11 & 2.12 of Text).

Module 3

Input/Output Organization: Accessing I/O Devices, Interrupts – Interrupt Hardware, Enabling and Disabling Interrupts, Handling Multiple Devices, Controlling Device Requests, Direct Memory Access(upto 4.2.4 and 4.4 except 4.4.1 of Chap 4 of Text).

Module 4

Memory System: Basic Concepts, Semiconductor RAM Memories-Internal organization of memory chips, Static memories, Asynchronous DRAMS, Read Only Memories, Cash Memories, Virtual Memories, Secondary Storage-Magnetic Hard Disks (5.1, 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.2, 5.2.3, 5.3, 5.5 (except 5.5.1 to 5.5.4), 5.7 (except 5.7.1), 5.9, 5.9.1 of Chap 5 of Text).

Module 5

Basic Processing Unit: Some Fundamental Concepts, Execution of a Complete Instruction, Multiple Bus Organization, Hardwired Control, Microprogrammed Control (upto 7.5 except 7.5.1 to 7.5.6 of Chap 7 of Text).

Course Outcomes: After studying this course, students will be able to: 

• Explain the basic organization of a computer system.
• Explain different ways of accessing an input / output device including interrupts.
• Illustrate the organization of different types of semiconductor and other secondary storage memories.
• Illustrate simple processor organization based on hardwired control and micro programmed control.

Complete Notes Module1-Module5

Question paper pattern:

• Examination will be conducted for 100 marks with question paper containing 10 full questions, each of 20 marks.
• Each full question can have a maximum of 4 sub questions.
• There will be 2 full questions from each module covering all the topics of the module.
• Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module
• The total marks will be proportionally reduced to 60 marks as SEE marks is 60.

Text Book:

1. Carl Hamacher, ZvonkoVranesic, SafwatZaky: Computer Organization, 5th Edition, Tata McGraw Hill,
2002.

Reference Books:

1. David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy: Computer Organization and Design – The Hardware / Software Interface ARM Edition, 4th Edition, Elsevier, 2009.
2. William Stallings: Computer Organization & Architecture, 7th Edition, PHI, 2006.
3. Vincent P. Heuring& Harry F. Jordan: Computer Systems Design and Architecture, 2nd Edition, Pearson
Education, 2004.