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This document provides a course outline for a Computer Architecture and Organization course offered at the Addis Ababa Institute of Technology. The course is a 3rd year, semester-long course worth 6 ECTS credits. It covers topics such as computer evolution, components, memory organization, arithmetic, and operating systems. The course includes both theoretical lectures and hands-on laboratory sessions using the MIPS architecture. Students will be assessed through quizzes, a midterm exam, project, and final exam. Regular attendance is required and academic integrity is strictly enforced.

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COMPARCH Outline

This document provides a course outline for a Computer Architecture and Organization course offered at the Addis Ababa Institute of Technology. The course is a 3rd year, semester-long course worth 6 ECTS credits. It covers topics such as computer evolution, components, memory organization, arithmetic, and operating systems. The course includes both theoretical lectures and hands-on laboratory sessions using the MIPS architecture. Students will be assessed through quizzes, a midterm exam, project, and final exam. Regular attendance is required and academic integrity is strictly enforced.

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Addis Ababa Institute of Technology

Center of Information Technology and Scientific Computing


Computer architecture and organization course outline
Course Title: Computer architecture and organization
Course Code: ITSE-3252 Level 3rd Year

Course Mode: Theoretical with substantial laboratory content


Course ITSE-1261 Prerequisite Digital Logic
Prerequisites:

Lecture: Room 107


Lab: Brown/Orange Lab

Duration: A Semester ECTS 6


Text Book William Stallings, Computer Organization and Architecture, 8th Edition

Instructor: Abebe A (MSc. Computer Science)


Email: [email protected]
Course This course covers basic topics about computer architecture and organization. The course provides the
Description study of the structure, characteristics and operation of modern-day computer systems including a basic
background on the computers evolution, its design process and its internal characteristics which includes
processor components, control unit architecture, memory organization and system organization. All
internal components of a computer including processors, cache memories, random access memories,
magnetic disks, optical memories and input/output connections are considered from an architectural
perspective. Integer and floating-point representation in arithmetic logic unit (ALU) with arithmetical
operations are explained. Operating system principles and are also described.
Weekly Schedule
Week1 Distinction Between Computer Organization and Computer Architecture
Week 2 History of Computers and the Evolution of Intel Microprocessors
Week 3 Working principles of microprocessor and Implementation of Interrupts
Week 4 Computer Interconnection Structures, Bus Interconnection, PCI
Week 5 Computer Memory System Overview, Cache Memory, Design Elements and Principles of Cache Design
Week 6 Semiconductor Memories, Random Access Memory, Read Only Memory
Week 7 Error Detection and Correction in Semiconductor Memories, Advanced DRAM Organization
Week 8 Midterm Examinations
Week 9 External Memories, Magnetic Disk, RAID, Optical Memory, Magnetic Tape
Week 10 External Devices, I/O Modules, I/O Processors, Direct Memory Access, Different External Interfaces
Week 11 Operating System Overview, Scheduling of Processes
Week 12 Operating System Memory Management
Week 13 Arithmetic Logic Unit, Binary Integer Representation, Binary Integer Arithmetic
Week 14 Binary Floating-Point Representation
Week 15 Final Examinations
LAB Session
Lab 1 Introduction to MARS
LAB 2 Introduction to MIPS Assembly Language Programming
LAB 3 Integer Arithmetic
LAB 3 Reading Inputs
LAB 4 Flow Control
LAB 5 Arrays and Files
LAB 6 MIPS Functions and the Stack Segment
General On successful completion of this course students should be able to:
Learning • Describe computer architecture and organization, computer arithmetic, and CPU design.
Outcomes • Describe how numbers and characters are represented in a computer.
• Describe I/O system and interconnection structures of computer.
• Draw a block diagram, including interconnections, of the main parts of a computer.
• Describe how a computer stores and retrieves information to/from memory and hard drives. • Identify
high performance architecture design.
• Explain how the cache memory is implemented.
• Explain a wide variety of memory technologies both internal and external.
• Define the terms: bus, handshaking, serial, parallel, data rate.
• Describe various data representations and explain how arithmetic and logical operations are performed
by computers.
References: 1. M. Morris Mano, Computer System Architecture, Prentice Hall of India Pvt Ltd, Third edition,2002.
ISBN: 81-203-0855-7.
2. Nicholas Carter, Schaum’s outline of Computer Architecture, Tata McGraw Hill, 2006.

Quiz, Laboratory, Attendance, Participation 10%


Course Midterm Exam 30%
Assessment: Project 20%
Final Exam 30%
Attendance  Each student can have only one make-up exam.
Policy:  One who misses an exam should provide a medical report or a valid excuse within 3 days after the
missed exam.
 The make-up exam is done at the end of the term and covers all the topics.
 No make-up exam is given for the quizzes/Lab tests.
 Students who fail to attend the lectures regularly may be given NG grade.
 Once the grades are announced, the students have only one week to do objection about their grades.
Academic Students are expected to be honest and to submit their own work on quizzes, exams and assignments.
Integrity: Cheating during an exam results dismissal from the exam room; as well as a strong penalty from the
academic committee.

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