COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE & ORGANIZATION (CSE404)
UNIT1- Evolution of Computers :
Brief history of development; Babbage's machines, Von Neumann Concept, Difference between calculators and computers, Generations of Computer -SSI,LSI, VLSI, Classification - micro, mini, main frames and supercomputers.PC's and portable systems.
UNIT1-2 Number Representation :
Signed numbers, Signed - magnitude 1's complement, 2's complement and excess notations, numbers, Fixed and floating point numbers and operations, Booth’s Algorithm, Common errors in arithmetic truncation errors, round of errors.Codes : weighted and non-weighted, BCD, ASCII, EBCDIC.
UNIT3- Central Processing Unit :
Components of Arithmetic Logic Unit (in block diagram only), Different types of instructions, Instruction format, addressing modes, different CPU registers - Accumulator, Flag, Program Counter, Instruction Register and General Purpose registers. Hardware control unit - its different functions
UNIT4- Microprocessor:
Intel 8085 architecture and simple assembly language programming concept, Brief introduction to Intel 8086/8088 and Pentium processor . (relative study), Brief introduction to RISC processor.
UNIT5- Memory :
Concept of bits, bytes and words; Storage of numbers and characters, RAM, ROM, EPROM; Concept of cache memory - its role in performance improvement, memory hierarchy.
UNIT6- I/O Devices :
Printers - Dot Matrix, Ink Jet, Line, Laser; Visual display unit – alphanumeric and graphic, Keyboard, Graphics devices - mouse, joy-stick, Scanners and digitizers, Auxiliary storage devices - floppy and Hard disk : Sectors, tracks and cylinders, accessing mechanisms (brief idea). Magnetic tapes - description and accessing mechanisms, CD ROM
UNIT 7- PC Architecture
REFERENCE BOOKS :
1. Computer Organization & Architecture – by Stallings, PHI
2. Computer Organization – by V. C. Hamacher, Z. G. Vranesic& S. G. Zaki, MGH
3. Computer Architecture & Organization – by J. P. Hayes, MGH
4. Computer Organization & Design – by Pal Chaudhuri, PHI
5. Computer System Architecture – by Mano, PHI